A team from the Madrid - base artwork restoration company , Da Vinci Restauro , lay claim to have found what could be one of Europe ’s oldest time capsules . According tolocal medium , the recently discovered 300 - year - old document had been obliterate inside a hollow statue of Jesus Christ . It is deserving pointing out that the report has yet to be confirmed by historians and archaeologists .
The handwritten government note is two Thomas Nelson Page long and , according to the team behind the discovery , dates back to 1777 . They say it was signed by Joaquin Minguez , a priest from the cathedral Burgo de Osma .
Local historiographer Efren Arroyo , who also happens to be a extremity of the Holy Week Brotherhood of Sotillo de la Ribera and was affect in the restoration undertaking , is report to have said : " It is awe-inspiring , because it really is unique to get hide out handwritten document inside such statues ” .
He believes the priest made the time capsule intentionally to immortalize what life was like at the clock time , though his donnish certificate are n’t peculiarly decipherable .
As for the contents of the note , it seems to shroud a random mixing of topics , from game to common disease to notable sportsmen . Minguez talk about typhus and malaria fevers that last three or four day , the name of famous toreador and aldermen , and pop pastimes , such as " cards , nut , denudate , cake and other jejune game . "
The priest also breed certain political and economic events and information about the intellectual nourishment spring up in the Bishopric of Burgo de Osma . He make special reference to the wine , which had encounter bountiful harvest for " many years " .
The wooden statue in interrogative sentence is usually stored at the church of Santa Agueda in Sotillo de la Ribera , Burgos , northerly Spain , and according to Minguez ’s text file , it was carve by a man call Manuel Bal . The note itself was locate ( where else ? ) in the statue ’s rear conclusion . news show reports say the restorers only found the document after removing a piece of fabric used to cover Jesus ' hindquarters .
While it ’s certainly an interesting and strange breakthrough , we will have to look and see if the claim turn out to be right .
