Thursday, January 20, 2022

WW2 bombing buried a cake in a German house (which seems to have fell into the basement), and it was just recently discovered , t


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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