Thousand-Year-Old Wooden Face Sculpture Found at Bottom of Polish Lake

Thousand-year-old wooden face sculpture found at bottom of Polish lake

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Carved human face found in Polish lake

Archaeologists from the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) have made the remarkable discovery of a carved wooden beam in the waters of Lake Lednica, located between Poznań and Gniezno in west-central Poland. Made from oak, the beam features a depiction of human face, which experts have dated to around AD 967 during the early Middle Ages. Archaeologists suggest that the beam is part of the defensive ramparts of the medieval gród (fortress) that…