{"id":44625,"date":"2015-03-13T02:55:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44625"},"modified":"2015-03-13T02:55:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:55:01","slug":"archaeologists-unearth-centuries-old-pretzels-in-bavaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/13\/archaeologists-unearth-centuries-old-pretzels-in-bavaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists unearth centuries-old pretzels in Bavaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44690\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_82885474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44690\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_82885474.jpg\" alt=\"Patricia Hofmeester \/ Shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_82885474.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_82885474-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_82885474-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Hofmeester \/ Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN &#8212; Archaeologists say two pretzels unearthed during a dig on the banks of the Danube in the German city of Regensburg could be more than 300 years old &#8211; and are little different to the doughy product available in the state&#8217;s famous beer halls today.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothee Ott, spokeswoman for the Bavarian Office for Historical Conservation, said Thursday the pretzel fragments went on display this week at the Regensburg Historical Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Ott says the pretzels and other baked goods found were badly burned, which is why they survived the centuries. Archaeologists believe they were discarded from a bakery that was once on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon dating places their creation between 1700 and 1800. Taking into account about 15 percent shrinkage, Ott says &#8220;it&#8217;s a normal pretzel, maybe a little smaller than today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN &#8212; Archaeologists say two pretzels unearthed during a dig on the banks of the Danube in the German city &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":44690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1482,5742,7265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","category-breaking","category-science-2","category-news-weird","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}