Students at an archaeological site in France discovered a message in a bottle from an archaeologist whoworked there 200 years ago. While conducting an emergency dig at a Gaulish village threatened by erosion, the students found the bottle inside an earthenware pot.

Guillaume Blondel, head of the town`s Regional Archaeology Service, opened the bottle to find a note from P.J. Féret, who excavated the site in January 1825. The message mentioned his ongoing investigations in the area known as the Cité de Limes. Blondel described the moment as `absolutely magic,` noting that time capsules are rare in archaeology. Local records confirmed that Féret was a prominent archaeologist during his time.