2,400-year-old esparto grass sandals show Iron Age miners used the same footwear for 400 years
Ancient miners in southwestern Spain wore sandals made from esparto grass for more than 400 years, a new study shows. Researchers examined eight sandal soles from the ancient mining settlement of…
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