Researchers found the eerily preserved artifact in the basement of a home that collapsed following the British bombing raid in March 1942 , which the British carried out in retaliation for a 1940 Nazi bombing raid on the English city of Coventry. What’s left of the hazelnut-and-almond cake includes remnants of nut fillings, as well as a wax paper covering.
The Lübeck’s archaeology department says that a cavity formed under the building’s rubble protected the cake from the heat and ensured it wasn’t crushed. Seventy-nine years later, the sweet treat is “blackened by soot but still easily recognizable,”
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