A strange string of events led archaeologists to uncover an ancient treasure trove, dating to the late Roman period, in a river valley cave in northern Spain. And it all started with a badger. After heavy snows hit the Iberian Peninsula amidst Storm Filomena in the winter of 2021, one Grado resident, Roberto Garcia, accompanied by two archaeologists, happened upon a hollow nestled in an embankment along the Nalón River in Asturias province. García did observe, according to Spanish newspaper El País, what appeared to be freshly dug soil beside a badger’s burrow and hypothesized that, during the storm, the badger likely dug the hole while foraging for grub, searching for earthworms, berries, or small invertebrates, and incidentally bored into the earth to produce what it would’ve surely deemed unappetizing: pieces of cold hard metal. This would, however, turn out to be the largest hoard of Roman coins ever found in …