Researchers have discovered an egg that still contains liquid nearly two thousand years after it was laid.
During archaeological excavations as part of the Oxford Archeology project in Aylesbury (UK), an ancient bird’s egg was found, which is almost two thousand years old. CNN reported it.
Although it was demolished at the beginning of our era, during the Roman Empire, researchers say that its contents are still intact.
Douglas GD Russell, senior curator of bird eggs and nests at the Natural History Museum (NHM), says there are older eggs with the contents still intact. For example, the Natural History Museum (NHM) has a series of mummified eggs that were probably unearthed in Egypt in 1898. However, there are no other known examples of naturally preserved intact eggs from antiquity.
It is noted that archaeologists believe that the eggs found in the pit, which were used to provide water for sweetening and brewing before 270 AD, were left there as gifts to the gods after the pit was no more. can be used
“In the Roman world, people tended to perform rituals and leave gifts for the gods, much like today people throw coins into fountains for luck,” said by Edward Biddulph, senior manager at Oxford Archaeology.
The three eggs found were intact. But due to their extraordinary fragility, the two cracked immediately after being pulled out. Archaeologists say that at that moment they smelled “the smell of sulphur.”
It wasn’t until August 2023 that researchers discovered the liquid inside a leftover egg. They performed a micro-CT scan of the egg. It showed that the yolk and white were surprisingly still preserved.
Biddulph added that scientists plan to carefully remove the fluid to study it more closely, in a process similar to hatching an egg.
“No one has seen anything like this before, so each stage of exploration creates new moments with amazing potential. It’s very exciting,” he said.
It was previously reported that a group of scientists in China unearthed an ancient frog with a stomach full of eggs.
Source: korrespondent
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