Finding an ancient pattern must not feel like anyone else, but managing them is a very different matter. Paleontologists working in the field are undoubtedly familiar with the painful process of displacing very old, very ancient and very irreplaceable items such as bones and eggs from the ground.
Israeli antiquities authorities recently caught up with more familiar eggs than dinosaurs, obtained from excavations in Yavan, Israel. Looking for them? An intact chicken egg that avoids surprising destruction for 1000 years for preservation in the toilet. Go to the figure. The search for a chicken egg is one of the rarest in the world, because it is so fragile that it is not easily found. The excavations that led to the discovery of the chicken eggs were led by Dr. Eli Haddad, Liat Nadav-Ziv and Dr. John Seligman, and it discovered a large industrial area dating back to the Byzantine period, which began in 330 AD.
“Ovarian fragments have been known from earlier times, for example in David City and Caesarea and Apollonia, but the fragile shell of the egg has rarely made it possible to store chicken eggs. Even on a global scale, this is a very rare find, “said Dr. Lee Perry Gall of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, an expert on poultry in ancient Israel, in a statement emailed to IFLScience.
“In archaeological excavations we occasionally find ancient ostrich eggs, the thick shells of which keep them intact.” The fact that the egg was recovered from an ancient chain is considered to explain how it has remained intact all these years. The contents of the toilet (mostly soft human waste) have made it an ideal condition for storing it remarkably well in its kind of incubator. In their release, Israeli antiquities authorities explained that pork products became a popular source of protein as a substitute for chicken eggs and meat when they came under ban.
This switch has been recorded in the archeology of the site, which shows a marked dip in the bones of pigs and an increase in poultry products such as our toilet eggs. The 1000 years stored in the pope does not produce any hard eggs, but despite the ultimate caution and care, the egg unfortunately cracked during the removal of the egg. Fortunately, in the biological laboratory of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, conservationist Ilan Nour recovered the egg a thousand years ago, optimistic that future DNA analysis will yield results.
