Archeologists Discover 1000-Year-Old Egg, Accidentally Break It
Archeologists in Israel made an incredibly rare discovery in the ancient industrial zone of Yavneh, a central Israeli city: a 1,000 year old chicken egg.
Astonishingly, the egg lay underground, preserved for all those years — until, tragically, they accidentally broke it in a lab run by archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority, as Haaretz reports.
“We were astonished to find it,” IAA archaeologist Alla Nagorsky told the newspaper. “From time to time we find fragments of eggshells, but a whole egg is extraordinary.”
Nagorsky argued that the mishap didn’t have too much of an effect on its archeological value. Some yolk remained in the shell and is now being tested for DNA. In fact, the archeologist told the newspaper it may have had to be broken at some point anyway to study its contents.
Other findings in the digging site included three dolls made of bone, typical of the 11th century in the area, and an oil lamp.
