A badger helped archaeologists uncover a trove of more than 200 Roman-era coins concealed in a cave in Spain for centuries. The coins were found in April 2021 in La Cuesta cave in the Asturias region in northern Spain.
A badger helped archaeologists uncover a trove of more than 200 Roman-era coins concealed in a cave in Spain for centuries.
The coins were found in April 2021 in La Cuesta cave in the Asturias region in northern Spain, according to ain the Journal of Prehistory and Archaeology, published by Madrid's Autonomous University. A badger looking for food may have dug up some of the coins after a snowstorm that hit Spain last year, according to the research. The animal left the coins near its nest, before a man,García alerted a team of archaeologists, including Alfonso Fanjul, who led the dig for the coins.
"We were shocked to find 90 coins just in the floor outside a nest of a badger," Fanjul told USA TODAY. "We didn't know how many could be underground or even if we could find more valuable objects."
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