Detection of egg than 2000 years ago in ancient tomb

On 24/8, an egg than 2,000 years old were discovered in an ancient tomb chishui waterfront, Guizhou Province, China.
This is the first time such a strange egg was discovered in an ancient tomb in Guizhou. Archaeological team is "a headache" because not found a way to put the egg when it was too soft.

Strange egg lifespan of 2,000 years.
Hoang Kim Loan only monument located on the waterfront chishui township Prime City is the largest monument is open only in Guizhou arts to this point.
Archaeological team has discovered a lot of pottery and animal bones in a tomb of the Han dynasty 2,000 years.
The special thing, a yellowish ball found the pile of pottery.
"When you use a feather duster over gently, surface cracking ball," Zhang Restoration lock, head archaeologist team said. "We have to look carefully and thoroughly compare finally determined it was a strange egg"
Do buried in the ground too long, can not distinguish between yolk and egg white. However, according to observers, the eggshell was preserved intact.
Detection of eggs in ancient tombs not only the first occurrence in the history of archeology in Guizhou, but also it is something very rare in China. Previously, chicken eggs have also been discovered in tombs in Henan, Shanxi and Chongqing. The tombs have in common is that all have from the Han dynasty.
According to witnesses, the smaller eggs chicken eggs sold today. But why bury the eggs together in the tombs? Restoration Lock said Zhang Han regarded as living dead to articles intended to be burned alive when a buried ceramic material. Similarly, wine, cereals and eggs ... all the things they used to eat when life became buried objects.
Currently, the staff of the archaeological team are looking to put up because eggs can just touch it will break immediately. "If done in the traditional way using plaster coating method may take up but then again it is difficult to separate the plaster off the surface of the egg," said Zhang Improvement Course. Though brought up successfully but how to preserve an egg with 2,000 year life is another story.