2000-Year-Old Bread Discovered in Switzerland Reveals a Roman Camp

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A slice of two thousand-year-old carbonised bread was discovered at the archaeological site of Vindonissa, in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, and the local authorities announced. This exceptional piece, the first vestige of a Roman bakery ever documented in Switzerland, helped to identify a military camp hitherto unknown, upsetting the chronology of the imperial presence on the Helvetic territory, according to the magazine Geo. An invaluabl…