Mr. Nag has been cleaning out a building in our back yard that is filled to the roof with junk. He probably won't find anything as interesting as this though: Members of the Archaeology and Anthropology department at the University of Bristol were also doing a clean up when they came upon a box containing animal bones, seeds, apple rings and pottery.
The researchers determined that the material was from a 4,500 year old tomb from Ur that had been excavated by archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s and 1930s. Bones and seeds (called environmental remains) were rarely collected by archaeological expeditions during that time period so this is a very interesting find indeed.
More: Smithsonian
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