![]() ![]() ![]() This theory was also supported by the nearby presence of the Limes, a fortification that made up part of the northern border wall of the Roman Empire. As a result, researchers thought that the site had once housed a Roman smelting operation. In 1897, exploratory digs in Bad Ehms unearthed processed silver and metal slag. The spikes were located in what is now the German town of Bad Ehms, where archaeologist Frederic Auth has led excavations since 2019, according to a statement from the university.Īrchaeological interest in the site goes back much further. ![]() And in the process, they’ve dispelled a 130-year-old assumption about the area’s history. Now, for the first time, researchers from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered an intact artifact. ![]() Until this year, no examples of this military technology had ever been found. When Julius Caesar undertook his legendary military campaign in Gaul during the first century B.C.E., he wrote about small, sharpened wooden stakes that would line the fences of his camps-an ancient Roman version of barbed wire. ![]()
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