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Lavatory shaft reveals the cost of 17th‑century vanity in Germany
- June 23, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Four goose skulls were pulled from a former toilet shaft in Brandenburg, Germany, each of them riddled with strange holes. As it turns out, these holes were the telltale signs of fancy feathered crests, making them the first crested geese ever identified in the archaeological record.
Originally published at Phys.org