The domestic chicken is a sub-species of the red junglefowl (Gallus Gallus) which is native to Southeast Asia, not North America. For some reason, Mormon archaeologists keep looking for them....

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crack-archaeologists-find-four-roman-chicken-eggs-v0tv02f7l


They were intended as offerings to Roman gods or spirits of the underworld. But the four eggs instead ended up under the trowels of archaeologists who inadvertently cracked three of them, releasing an unearthly pong.

The chicken eggs were cast into a pond around AD 270-280 and discovered complete near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. While three of the fragile relics broke on exposure, giving off a sulphurous smell, the fourth was recovered intact and is the only one of its kind in Britain.

Stuart Foreman, of Oxford Archaeology, the dig project manager, said: “There’s a very good reason it’s the first and only [such] find in the UK. In a pit that has been waterlogged for thousands of years you get things that would never survive in a dry environment. Three eggs broke, and let off a potent stench. But it’s incredible we even got one out. They were so fragile.”

The site where the eggs were found is next to an old Roman road that connected the settlements of St Albans, Bicester and Cirencester. Experts said the pit was initially used for malting grain to brew beer from the second to mid-third centuries, before it started being used for offerings. Alongside the eggs were a “very rare” basketry tray, made out of woven oak bands and willow rods, dozens of coins, shoes and wooden tools.

Edward Biddulph, who spent three years analysing the finds, said: “Passers-by would have perhaps stopped to throw in offerings to make a wish for the gods of the underworld to fulfil. The Romans associated eggs with rebirth and fertility, for obvious reasons. We have found chicken bones and broken eggshells in Roman graves in Britain before, but never a complete egg.”

LOL @ backward god-less pagans ~


LOL @ offering valuable protien-rich red junglefowl eggs to pathetic idols ~


in b 4 ~ 300 years after Jesus they shoub hab knowed better ~


just LOL @ ancient god-less pagans ~

When a discovery like this happens, in an endeavor where human thought and human effort was involved, I always think:

If [someone] could time-travel back to 1,700 years ago, and told those people that these eggs would be discovered in 2019 CE, how many people back then would have been able to imagine that?

It is likely some would, but only a sparse few.

And I have always wondered about the difference between those who COULD imagine, and those who could not.