Klingan Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Archaeologists have found an eight-million-year old forest of cypresses, well preserved and not fossilized, in northeastern Hungary. "The discovery is exceptional as the trees kept their wooden structure, they neither turned into coal nor were petrified," said Tamas Pusztai, the deputy director and head of the archaeological department at the local Otto Herman museum, who oversaw the excavation. Archaeologists announced the find last week after uncovering the mysterious forest of taxodiums, a kind of swamp cypress, after a few days of digging. Read more here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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