Roman egg found in Aylesbury still has contents after 1,700 years

Archaeologists and naturalists astonished to find yolk and albumen that may reveal secrets about the bird that laid it

It was a wonderful find as it was, a cache of 1,700-year-old speckled chicken eggs discovered in a Roman pit during a dig in Buckinghamshire.

But to the astonishment of archaeologists and naturalists, a scan has revealed that one of the eggs recovered intact still has liquid - thought to be a mix of yolk and albumen - inside it, and may give up secrets about the bird that laid it almost two millennia ago.