CORN 1,800 YEARS OLD.

North Otago Times, 6 August 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

CORN 1,800 YEARS OLD.

At Eosco, Itealc, a place not far from Pompeii, there were recently unearthed some jars of grain which were considered as among the most curious and interesting of the many thousands of antiquities exhumed.' . More than 1.8 centuries, as all-tho world knows, have passed since unfortunato Pdmpeii and Herculaneum were overwhelmed and buried beneath ashes and lava from Vesuvius.

During more than 17 centuries the; herdsmen wandered with their flocks abovo the buried cities, which had. disappeared from sight,, and no ono knew their exact locality until some statues were exhumed by accident in 1748. In 1755 tho great amphitheatre was uncovered, and since then ' systematic exhumations have been carried on, rovcaling riches of which nobody had dreamed, They are still going on, and not long ago a find of silverware and jewellery was purchased by Baron Rothschild for 400,000 francs aiuV presented to the Louvre, It was in a court attached to one of the buildings revealed by the excavations that the series of large earthen jars was found, arranged chessboard fashion '.'did filled with grain, just as they had been left by those who had created this curious granary : nearly 1,900 years ago.