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JERUSALEM. KAZINFORM - Israeli archaeologists have discovered an intact chicken s egg of roughly 1,000 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said Wednesday, Xinhua reports. Related news
The egg was found in an excavation site in the central city of Yavne, in a cesspit dating from the Islamic period.
The egg s rare preservation is evidently due to the conditions in which it lay for centuries, nestled in the cesspit containing soft human waste that preserved it, the archaeologists said.
However, the egg had a small crack in the bottom so most of the contents had leaked out and only some of the yolk remained, which was preserved for future DNA analysis.