A lot of people in helmets have been busying themselves at a construction site at Jakobi 5 in Tartu for several months. They include, in addition to construction workers erecting the new study building of the University of Tartu Institute of Education, archaeologists who have discovered exciting finds from a bygone era.
December weather is no hindrance. We meet with the dig supervisor, CEO of Arheox, the company in charge of the archaeological effort, Rivo Bernotas and site supervisors Keiti Randoja and Kristjan Kreos in a snow-covered courtyard where people have been parking their cars for years. Even archaeologists did not expect to immediately strike old walls not shown on any map, Maarit Stepanov writes in the journal Universitas Tartuensis.