Iron Age 'Mickey Mouse' Found

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Iron Age 'Mickey Mouse' Found

Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
June 15, 2007 — One thousand years before the cartoon character Mickey Mouse was even a glint in Walt Disney's eye, a French artist created a bronze brooch that looks remarkably like the famous rodent, according to archaeologists at Sweden's Lund Historical Museum, which houses the recent find.

The object, dated to 900 A..D., was excavated at a site called Uppåkra in southern Sweden.

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Mickey, Is That You?

Actually, archaeologists who recovered the Mickey-like
ornament explain it was crafted to be a lion by an artist
who likely never saw a real lion.