LONDON -- Archaeologists in Britain have discovered houses from the Bronze Age that are so well preserved, they appear frozen in time despite being 3,000 years old.
The discovery, thought to be the best-preserved dwellings from the era ever found in Britain, have prompted people to draw comparisons with Pompeii.
Archaeologists said they've found intact walls and portions of the roof as well as well-preserved timber posts from the circular wooden dwellings.
Fire likely destroyed the posts of the dwelling, causing it to fall into a river, sink and become covered by silt, thus preserving the structure and its contents.
"Having such a complete, contextualised later Bronze Age home is a phenomenally rare discovery, especially in the United Kingdom," reads an update on the project's website, describing the find as an opportunity prehistorians long for.
Archaeologists working on the site have found textile fragments and pots still thought to contain food inside. They uncovered 29 complete vessels; one even still had the spoon still inside.
"We will be examining the food to find out exactly what was in it," Chris Wakefield, outreach worker for Cambridge Archaeology Unit said, according to the Peterborough Telegraph.
“Because of the way it was abandoned with everything still on site, it is a bit like Pompeii."