Searching "Archaeology" on a website geared towards finding strange things called Oddity Central led me to an interesting discovery. Since 1997, there has been a construction site in Treigny, France that is mimicking the construction of architecture in the medieval era. Not only has this project become a major tourist attraction, but "it has created over 55 jobs" and "acts as an educational backdrop for school excursions." The point of the project is to really create the feeling of a medieval environment. The work is done slowly and by hand and the workers even dress in traditional medieval outfits. This site is the perfect hook for people who have not had much interaction with medieval history, it gives a much more hands on experience than any book would. While this article is not as weird as some of the others found on Oddity Central, it is still a very different mode of learning about archaeology than is normally found. It is not often that people get to be immersed in an ancient culture.
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