Posted on 09/22/2024 12:18:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a BBC News report, students discovered a message in a bottle at a Gaulish village site in northern France. Much of the 2,000-year-old fortified village has been lost to the erosion of the cliff where it is located. The message had been rolled up, tied with a string, and placed in a vial of the type that women used to wear round their necks to hold smelling salts, said municipal archaeologist Guillaume Blondel. The vial had then been placed in a pot and buried. "P.J Féret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825. He continues his investigations in this vast area known as the Cité de Limes or Caesar's Camp," reads the translated statement. Blondel compared the message to a time capsule left by carpenters who build houses. "But it's very rare in archaeology," he said.
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Gerard Butler did “Atilla” before “Timeline,” both of which I have. But you’re right, it’s a great book and the movie could have been better, but it was OK. It wasn’t a waste of money....
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That was my first thought! What beautiful cursive writing.
It was easier to be an archeologist 200 years ago. There was not as much history.......
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