Ten years ago, the Copenhagen Museum carried out excavations in the heart of the Danish capital, in anticipation of the construction of a new metro line.
In Kultorvet, a square in the historic center, archaeologists dig up two wine barrels 90 centimeters in diameter.
The head of the excavations, Hoda El-Sharnouby, is marked by the smell that emanates from them, reminiscent of that of "rotten eggs", as she confided to the newspaper Politiken.
And for good reason: the containers contain fossilized excrement!
The barrels are in fact latrines dating from 1680. But the inconvenient flagrance which escapes from them is "good news" for the expert, because it means that the soil poor in oxygen has preserved the ancestral excrement of the appetite. voracious bacteria.
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