Archaeologists find 1,700-year-old Roman sandal in melting ice in Norway
It looks so out of place and we have so many questions.
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It looks so out of place and we have so many questions.
In 2019, a Norwegian mountaineer stumbled across a soggy, twisted blob of leather on a patch of ice. Before continuing, he reported the find to archaeologists with Secrets of...
Experts believe the sandal is a version of the Roman carbatina, a shoe style popular in Europe at the time.
An ancient traveler likely discarded the worn-out leather shoe as rubbish around 300 C.E.
The discovery of an Iron Age sandal on an icy Norwegian mountain provides more evidence that the mountain served as a travel route about 1,700 years ago. A mountain hiker found the sandal in an area known as the Horse Ice Patch in late August 2019. The hiker contacted researchers at Secrets of the Ice, who study archaeology preserved