This past September, Guillaume Blondel, an archaeologist, led a team of students excavating a Gallic site near Dieppe, France. His group was not the first to dig at this location associated with Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul. BBC News reports that these modern scholars found at the site a message sealed in a glass bottle left by a previous archaeological team in 1825. Their message, when translated into English, reads:
P.J Féret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825. He continues his investigations in this vast area known as the Cité de Limes or Caesar’s Camp.
Historical research forms that a local leader named Féret did indeed excavate the site.
-via Messy Nessy Chic | Photo: Guillaume Blondel
