Archeologists discover 2,000-year-old child's shoe with laces intact

[discocrisco01]

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Source: CNN

A shoe belonging to a child and dating back more than 2,000 years has been unearthed in Austria with its laces still intact.

The design of the leather shoe, whose size roughly corresponds to EU 30 (US 12), suggests it was likely made in the 2nd century BC, according to the German Mining Museum Bochum-Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources.

The shoe was excavated by archeologists in the western village of Dürrnberg, where rock salt mining took place from as early as the Iron Age, it said in a recent press release.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/world/archeologists-discover-ancient-child-shoe-intl-scli-scn/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2023-09-21T11%3A45%3A08

[bucolic_frolic]

1. A child's shoe size 12?

Holey Moley!

[AZ8theist]

3. How can they conclude a "child's shoe" is a size 12???

I'm an adult grown (hefty) man who wears a 12.
There must be some other evidence to reach that determination.

[Tree-Hugger]

6. Child's 12

Kid shoes go up to size 13 and then back to 1 to 5 in older kids. So a child's size 12 is pretty small - probably 5 or 6 years old.

[madaboutharry]

4. A children's size 12.

That would be the size for a child around 4 to 6 years old.

[sybylla]

12. Since people were smaller back then...

and nutrition wasn't always consistent, it would also be fair to assume that in 200 bc the child who wore this shoe was probably older by a couple of years.

[Ptah]

2. Wow!

[Martin68]

5. What! No velcro?

[Wonder Why]

7. don't believe it. My kids could never keep their shoes tied. Q.E.D.

[Effete Snob]

11. yep, the laces weren't in danger of having been used

...if my kids were representative.

[twodogsbarking]

8. No swoosh?

[ggma]

9. PROOF!

Kids outgrow their shoes before they wear them out!

gg

[dembotoz]

10. feel sorry for the kid

even all these years later...kids catch hell for losing a shoe

[orangecrush]

13. K&R

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. My dog moved it there.

[Karadeniz]

15. 2000 years later, mothers are still searching for the kid's other shoe....

[Omaha Steve]

16. After a review by forum hosts, locking........

not IMPORTANT news.

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