Newly excavated items that survived A-bomb go on display in Hiroshima

Newly excavated household items that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, such as a milk bottle melted by fire and a marble, were put on display Thursday at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.About 30 items unearthed from the soil beneath the main museum building provide an insight into the lives of local residents before the bomb was dropped on the city on Aug. 6, 1945, in the final phase of World War II.(Hiroshima City Culture Foundation)Household items filling about 1,000 containers were found during an excavation survey conducted between November 2015 and March this year…READ FULL ARTICLE