An intact chicken egg dating back to roughly 1,000 years ago has been discovered by researchers in Israel, but the delicate object cracked while being studied by scientists.
The discovery was made by archaeologists during an excavation in an ancient pit in Yavne, Israel, as announced by the local museum Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) on its Facebook page last Wednesday, June 9. It showed photos of the said egg, along with other discoveries from the excavation.
“Eggshell fragments are known from earlier periods […] but due to the eggs’ fragile shells, hardly any whole chicken eggs have been preserved. Even at the global level, this is an extremely rare find,” Dr. Lee Perry…
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