Bohemia

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic recently made an unusual and exciting discovery that dates back many centuries. While digging up a medieval house in the historic center of Nový Jičín in the country’s Moravian-Silesian region, the excavation team found an astonishingly well-preserved kitchen hidden within the lower section of the house’s ruins. Initial estimates are that the kitchen was constructed sometime in the early 15th century. The 600-year-old room was unearthed inside a buried wooden home that was built near Nový Jičín’s historic city walls. This location is telling, because it suggests that the people who lived there were an elite family from the burgher class, a medieval aristocratic classification that referred to a wealthy and politically powerful elite. “Since