Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Cooking Fail
Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Cooking Fail
Bryan Brandom September 21, 2016
(Photo: NPR/Museum Silkeborg)
The next time you set out to compose a delicious meal and fail miserably, don't get down on yourself. Instead, take solace in the fact that someone 3,000 years ago might have done the same exact thing, according to archaeologists in Denmark.
During a recent dig north of Silkeborg, archaeologists uncovered an intact clay pot from the Bronze Age, which lasted from 2,500 B.C. to 800 B.C., filled with cheese and charred residue.
The contents of the pot were preserved by some unique coniditions.
"Normally, the vessels we find would be smashed to bits and deposited on the hillside in lake areas, and therefore, organic material would be damaged," Kaj F. Rasmussen, head archaeologist of Museum Silkeborg, told NPR. "Luckily, this [dig] is on a hilltop and the pit (where we found the pot) was dug into a clay deposit. Not much water got to it ... and oxygen access wasn't that great, either."
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