This glass is a blast from the past.
A 200-year-old message in a bottle was recently unearthed by volunteers amid an archaeological dig in northern France.
The group stumbled upon the bottle, with the letter still neatly wrapped, buried in a pot in an ancient Gallic village they were exploring.
The notice was written by archaeologist PJ Féret, who wrote that he orchestrated an excavation at the Cité de Limes site in January 1825, according to the BBC.
“PJ Féret, native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825,” the notice said. “He continues his investigations in this vast area known as City of Limes or Caesar’s camp.”
The city that supported the excavation, Eu, located in the Normandy region, posted a picture of the relic on his Facebook page.
“It was an absolutely magical moment,” Guillaume Blondel, the head of the archaeological service for the Eu, told the news agency.
“We knew there had been excavations here before, but to find this message from 200 years ago… it was a total surprise.
“Sometimes you see these time capsules that carpenters leave behind when they build houses. But it is very rare in archaeology. Most archaeologists prefer to believe that no one will come after them because they have done all the work!”