Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
Turns out that you don’t have to travel to the Welsh countryside for a chance to become the next King (or Queen!) Arthur. That is, as long as you don’t mind pulling your sword from a pile of human excrement instead of a stone.
A pipe-layer, Jannick, and an engineer, Henning, were going about their typical days doing some work on a street in Denmark when they pulled a sword from a layer of muck – largely excrement – that covered the oldest layer of pavement in the city.
And the museum that examined it reported that it was still sharp.
Luckily, Denmark has archaeologists ready and willing to look at whatever people happen to pull out of the sewage, thinking it might be really old. Some of the streets of Denmark…
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