A British citizen found a stone slab in a courtyard and stepped on it as a step, unaware that the slab was actually a thousand-year-old bone from the Roman Empire. Taken from Twitter
For thousands of years of human history, it is likely that the treasures that have been passed down from ancient times to the present are actually close at hand, but we just can’t see them. Recently, a foreign citizen found a slab of stone that he thought was just ordinary, but it was a thousand-year-old bone.
According to The Japanese media “COURRiER” reported that a person in the United Kingdom once moved to a new home, found a slate covered with mud in the garden. However, the owner of the house did not notice the special features of the slab and used it as a stepping stone for horseback riding. As the months passed, the mud and sand covered on the slab gradually receded, revealing the carvings of laurel wreaths and some suspicious text patterns inside.
Only then did the owner realize that the slab might contain a secret that was not known to the public, and contacted an archaeologist. After identification, archaeologists found that this inconspicuous slate, but probably from the second century CE, Greece, Asia Minor, that is, the Roman Empire era of bone.
The newspaper pointed out that the residence in the past, there were three medieval lords living nearby. Now they have all gone into history, but do not rule out the building in the disintegration of the material is recycled again, so the stone slabs fell here. Classical art experts said that in the past, wealthy aristocrats often traveled around Europe, making many artifacts so brought to the territory of the United Kingdom.
Knowing the value, the slab is planned to be auctioned, and the price is estimated to fall between 10,000 and 15,000 pounds. The auction will be held in February, when you can learn that this piece of nearly 2,000 years of history, the value of the slate, in fact, will be the prize who will fall.
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