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Shoes can give us an interesting insight into what people used to wear. Here are a dozen of the most extraordinary finds from the archaeological record.
A huge 2,000-year-old waterlogged leather shoe was unearthed by archaeologists while digging near the site of Magna, a Roman fort built along Hadrian's Wall around 112 AD. Hadrian's Wall was built to ...
Old leather shoes once possibly used to “ward off evil spirits” has started an archeological dig at a Canton home. The Tilden House was built in 1725 and is one of the first surviving houses built in ...
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This shoe is so old that when the Great Pyramid was built, it had already been sitting in a cave for 1,000 years. And it’s so well preserved that you can see a toe-print inside. Found in Armenia, this ...