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The discovery of an intact 2,000-year-old Roman egg surprises science - THE CITIZEN

In Aylesbury, a city about 80 kilometres north-west of London, archaeologists made an exceptional discovery: a Roman egg buried for more than two millennia and which, incredibly, still retains its liquid content. The finding occurred in 2010, during an excavation carried out by the Oxford Archaeology team, but it was not until August 2023 that scientists managed to confirm that the egg remained intact and with liquid inside it, something almost …