Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago

The mysterious missive was written by P.J. Féret, who conducted an archaeological dig at the same site in northern France in 1825

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Props to whoever made that bottle and stopper. That note is in fantastic condition.
- It probably helps, that the bottle was in salt in a clay pot in the ground and not in the ocean.
  
  It would seem that archeologists know how to preserve things.

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