A team of Chinese archaeologists from the Nanjing Archaeological Institute and the Liyang Museum have made a highly-unusual discovery inside a tomb in eastern China near the ancient capital city of Nanjing. While excavating, they unearthed a large clay jar believed to have been buried about 2,500 years ago and inside it they found collection of about 20 greenish blue eggs.
The eggs were excavated from the second to lowest layer of a six-leveled ancient burial complex consisting a total of 38 chamber tombs . According to an article in the Daily Mail the ancient eggs “date back more than two millennia to what is known as China's Spring and Autumn period between (770-476BC).”
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