Dung Clue To Hannibal's Alpine Crossing

[Monstrosa]

Link to BBC
Route hannibal took through the Alps may have been discovered.

 

[escargot]

I enjoyed reading about this in the Telegraph today. The evidence has been called 'solid and faecal'.

 

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Coincidentally, Dan Snow's recent investigations into the Vikings turned up a character who (with his bow tie) looked like he belonged on an Antiques programme, but was actually a Scatologist. He had a model of the largest human turd ever found!

 

[Peripart]

What? Who'd want a model of Keith Lemon?

 

[eburacum]

Coincidentally, Dan Snow's recent investigations into the Vikings turned up a character who (with his bow tie) looked like he belonged on an Antiques programme, but was actually a Scatologist. He had a model of the largest human turd ever found!

That's Andrew 'Bone' Jones, a first class eccentric archaeologist who usually describes himself as a bone expert, but since the discovery of this monstrous motion he has been calling himself a scatologist. Nice to have more than one string to your bow, I suppose.
Video here