June
10
/ 2021
As part of a salvage dig in advance of the construction of an urban expansion project in Yavne, a city in the Central District of Israel, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have come across something unexpected. Discovered cushioned in human waste in an ancient cesspit, they have uncovered a complete 1,000-year-old-egg which has been described as “an extremely rare find.” [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"86924","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","height":"406","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Apart from the 1,000-year-old egg, the team found three Islamic-period Coptic bone dolls in the Yavne cesspit. (Yoli Schwartz / Israel Antiquities Authority ) The Yavne Excavation and the 1,000-Year-Old-Egg Excavations at Yavne by the IAA have uncovered an ancient industrial complex dating back to the Byzantine era which operated over several hundred years. So far their
