Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era. The trilobite fossil is only the 11 th ever found worldwide in an archaeological context, and the first linked to the Romans. Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil from millions of years ago in a Roman-era dump near what is now Galicia, Spain. And according to the team’s analysis, that fossil had likely been refashioned into an amulet. The amulet was discovered in what is now considered a “dumping ground” for Roman home goods, nestled alongside discarded Roman pottery.