[Regnum] In France, student volunteers who were helping archaeologists in excavations in the south of the country found a letter from the 19th century. This is reported by the BBC.
As noted in the publication, when the students were sifting through material found at the site of an old Gallic village in the Dieppe area, they discovered a clay pot with a glass flask. Inside the flask was a message written on a small piece of paper.
"P. J. Feret, a native of Dieppe, a member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825. He continues his research in this vast area known as the Cité des Limes, or Caesar's Camp," the message reads.
The article clarified that Feret was a local celebrity and was the first to conduct research in the area in the 1820s.
Excavation director Guillaume Blondel noted that such time capsules, which archaeologists leave for their colleagues, are a great rarity.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 24, during excavations in the ancient city of Labrys, located 30 km from Anapa, archaeologists discovered two large altars dedicated to the ancient Greek god Apollo. According to the group of archaeologists, this ancient city was an important center of the ancient state of Sindica, which existed in this territory before our era.
Earlier, the first birch bark letters in the Far East were found in Yakutsk. The head of the republic, Aisen Nikolaev, said that nine letters were found, which were written in ink in a cursive script from the 17th century.