Archaeologists have dug up the remains of a 6th-century man with a wooden foot, making their discovery the oldest known evidence of such an appendage ever found in Europe.

In Early Medieval times, prosthetic appendages were rare, partially because surviving an amputation at all was largely against the odds. 

Archaeologists say they have dug up the remains of a man who both made it through the risky surgery and was outfitted with a wooden foot.

The discovery marks the