Prehistoric settlement commenced on the small island approximately 7000 BP and lasted for thousands of years.

Hamangia people were small-scale cultivators and plant collectors who built houses, made pottery, herded and hunted animals.

The excavation in Durankulak took part between 1974 and 1997 when 1204 prehistoric burials were carefully recorded and the remains of 25 houses were found.

[1] The name is of ancient origin meaning the place where the taurus knocked with his fist (hoof) and gushed water surrounded the two isles in the lake.

Golden ornamentations of tauruses were found in Thracian tombs, Roman burials and in the Varna Necropolis[2]