PHOTOS, VIDEO: Ancient documents, coins found in Murga church
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Experts opened a 227-year-old time capsule found in the Lutheran church’s wall in Murga in front of the cameras of RTL Klub. Here is what they discovered inside.
According to Blikk, a Hungarian tabloid, the time capsule was a glass bottle in which experts found multiple things. The date on it was 1796, the year when Napoleon Bonaparte married Joséphine de Beauharnais, and defeated the Austrians in the battles of Montenotte, Lodi and Arcole. József Schweidel, a later martyr of the 1848-1849 Hungarian revolution and freedom fight, was born, while Russian tsarina Catherine the Great died that year.
Blikk wrote that construction workers found a wall segment during the church’s renovation last year where the wall was thicker. When they opened it, a stone sarcophagus emerged with inscriptions on it, and the date: 1796.
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The time capsule was opened several times before but nobody remembered
When they opened it, they found a glass bottle containing coins and documents. Transferred to the National Archives in Budapest, a team led by Zsolt Kollár opened it some days ago. Interestingly, Fókusz, a popular TV show of RTL Klub, was present to record everything.
