Sometimes, you are closer to history that you could ever imagine.
For example, a group of restorers in England recently stumbled upon wall-to-wall paintings dating back to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, dating sometime between 1540 and 1580, said USA Today.
Restorers from the Landmark Trust conservation charity were on site at Calverley Old Hall, a manor house in Yorkshire, when they made the discovery.
The trust describes the art as “an astonishingly well-preserved scheme of sixteenth-century wall paintings, hidden beneath later lath and plaster,” and one of the “most sophisticated examples” of such work found in Britain.
Red, white and black pigment was used to paint men, foliage, beasts and other designs on the house’s walls in the Elizabethan era. They were done in the Grotesque style, which came from Italy.
“Wall paintings were prized in grand Tudor houses, and from time-to-time patches of them are revealed. But never in my own 27 years of working in historic buildings have I ever witnessed a discovery like this,” Anna Keay, the director of Landmark Trust, said in a statement.
Now, the Landmark Trust is working to restore the paintings with public donations.
“Their importance cannot be doubted. With them a slice of the lives of our ancestors has been restored to us, and nothing comes close to that,” Kaey said.
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