Lübeck Archaeology...

I'm back from my trip to Lübeck, and it was wonderful! If you're in the area, make sure to visit the Europäisches Hansemuseum (where you can read everything in German or English or Danish (if I remember correctly)...)

The two days planned for workshops and constructive sessions in the museum were full, and intense, and a lot of fun, just as they should be. There was a bit of time for me, before travelling home again, to take a stroll through the city and visit some of the important sights. Such as the Holstentor.

Much more thrilling for me, though, was walking down the Hundestraße - one of the many places in Lübeck where archaeological textiles were found...



There's a lot of other places which I did not go to, due to lack of time - but I'm hoping there will be a next time, and then I will go to the Schrangen, and visit some other museums, and enjoy some more of that lovely city.

Speaking of archaeology in Lübeck - there's been another find of something that usually easily decays: a layer cake has been found in an excavation! It was retrieved from a house that collapsed during the Second World War, in 1942, and it is something of a miracle. There's been analyses of the cake, and it was a nut cake. It's kind of nuts that it survived, so I find that very fitting! You can see a picture of the cake and read a bit about it (in German) here.