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In 1734, miners found a prehistoric man preserved in salt
Miners in Austria's Hallstatt salt mine, the oldest still at work, found a body preserved in the salt. Researchers now link him to a disaster around 350 BC that halted mining in the valley. But the miners buried him in the churchyard, so he can never be studied, and only old church and saltworks records describe the find.
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Original sources
- Natural History Museum Vienna. The Man in the Salt. https://www.nhm.at/hallstatt/en/salt_mine/discovery/man_in_the_salt
- Wikipedia. Hallstatt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt