All eyes were on a commission of professional archaeologists when they visited Glozel.Agence Meurisse/BnF Gallica
In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in excavation. The slow, painstaking work of archaeology was rarely headline news. But this was no ordinary dig.
A front-page spread in the Excelsior newspaper from Nov. 8, 1927, features archaeologists at work in the field with the headline ‘What the learned commission found at the Glozel excavations.’Excelsior/BnF Gallica
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