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Get email notification for articles from Ruth Schuster Follow Jun. 9, 2021 12:10 PM One day a thousand years ago, a chicken in Yavneh laid an egg. That egg was never to hatch, sadly for that chicken’s posterity. For some reason, it wound up in a cesspit in the ancient city’s industrial zone – and there it sat. Until archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority came along, conducting a salvage excavation in the ancient industrial zone of the central Israeli city ahead of construction, and found it. Seasoned in the extraction of extremely delicate matter, they managed to remove the egg from the cesspit, still perfect. ....
By Gilad Shtern Archeologist Alla Nagorsky holding the egg. In the latest installment in the eternal debate over which came first, an intact chicken egg dating from roughly 1021 CE was discovered in Yavne, a city in central Israel, archaeologists announced Wednesday. Found protected in a cesspit, the gem was discovered by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists during their excavation of Yavne as part of an urban expansion project in the city. Dr. Lee Perry Gal, a leading expert on poultry in the ancient world, explained the rare nature of the find. “Eggshell fragments are known from earlier periods, for example in the City of David and at Caesarea and Apollonia, but due to the eggs’ fragile shells, hardly any whole chicken eggs have been preserved. Even at the global level, this is an extremely rare find,” she said. “In archaeological digs, we occasionally find ancient ostrich eggs, whose thicker shells preserve them intact.” ....