Roman egg found in Aylesbury still has contents after 1,700 years
The find was made by Oxford Archaeology which has been working on the Berryfields housing and community development site near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire for nine years. Here they found โa middle Iron Age settlement and the agricultural hinterland of the putative nucleated Roman settlement of Fleet Marstonโ
Among the organic items found were four eggs, thought to be chicken eggs. They were all found intact but as they were being moved, three of them broke, as they were so fragile. The broken eggs emitted a very powerful and unpleasant smell, this was not a surprise as they were centuries old, after all.
One of the eggs was extracted intact from the muddy ground, after some painstaking work. This was astonishing as only fragments of eggshells had been found, previously in Britain, mainly from Roman-era graves.
The find was made by Oxford Archaeology which has been working on the Berryfields housing and community development site near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire for nine years. Here they found โa middle Iron Age settlement and the agricultural hinterland of the putative nucleated Roman settlement of Fleet Marstonโ
Among the organic items found were four eggs, thought to be chicken eggs. They were all found intact but as they were being moved, three of them broke, as they were so fragile. The broken eggs emitted a very powerful and unpleasant smell, this was not a surprise as they were centuries old, after all.
One of the eggs was extracted intact from the muddy ground, after some painstaking work. This was astonishing as only fragments of eggshells had been found, previously in Britain, mainly from Roman-era graves.
18th century wooden church surrounded by pine trees.
๐ธ Kuฤani village, Serbia
๐ธ Kuฤani village, Serbia
โMinerva Bearing the Knowledge of Humanityโ by Elihu Vedder.
๐ธ Washington Library of Congress
๐ธ Washington Library of Congress
Ancient Polish legend about 3 Slavic brothers Lech, Czech and Rus
This legend is certainly one of the oldest of all known Polish legends. It tells a story about three Slavic brothers who decided to depart together from their overpopulated homeland where they couldn't feed their tribes anymore, in order to find new places to settle for their people
This legend is certainly one of the oldest of all known Polish legends. It tells a story about three Slavic brothers who decided to depart together from their overpopulated homeland where they couldn't feed their tribes anymore, in order to find new places to settle for their people
Bronze sculpture depicing Artemis (Diana), the goddess of hunting, forests, and the moon.
The piece, dated between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, reflects the classical Hellenistic influence on Roman art, with an idealized style and dynamic movement in her tunic.
๐ธ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The piece, dated between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, reflects the classical Hellenistic influence on Roman art, with an idealized style and dynamic movement in her tunic.
๐ธ The Metropolitan Museum of Art