Archaeologists are busy excavating outside the town of Raciborz in Poland’s south.
They’re looking for, and in many cases finding, valuable artifacts from Poland’s ancient past, says one of the archaeologists, Marek Aniola.
“Most are ceramics, pottery ceramics. We found about 60,000 artifacts, which is tremendously rich,” says Aniola who is from the Polish Academy of Science.
The archaeological surveys in Raciborz and other regions of Poland’s Odra River Basin make up a cultural heritage component of a regional flood defense project, backed by the World Bank.
The Odra River Basin Flood Protection Project is digging and building flood-prevention structures in areas that have suffered severe flooding in the past, but not before each bit of affected terrain is thoroughly examined for possible ancient treasures it might – and often does – hold.