Ancient village destroyed by natural disaster discovered in Biel

Ancient village destroyed by natural disaster discovered in Biel

Construction crews in Biel, Germany, set out expecting nothing more than concrete footings and routine groundwork. Instead, several metres beneath the surface, they uncovered the faint outline of a long-vanished lakeside village. The site, buried near what is now the campus of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, had been sealed in damp, oxygen-poor soil—conditions that preserved wooden structures for thousands of years. Excavations in 2018 …