The surprising artifact could be evidence of fertility rituals—or just one of history’s strangest good luck charms.

A bio-archaeologist with the University of Reading, in the U.K., has found an ancient dog's red-painted penis bone along with a trove of other bones, in an ancient Roman era quarry shaft.

A first-of-its-kind painted dog penis bone has been discovered in a Roman quarry shaft in Surrey, an artefact that archaeologists suspect was used in a long-lost fertility ritual. The 13ft deep ...

But one, in particular, stood out: a dog's baculum (penis bone) that had been painted red ... Green found that most were born in the spring and summer, the planting period for important crops ...

One of the pits was filled with both human and animal bones — and now, researchers believe one of these pieces may be a first-of-its-kind ritualistic stained dog penis bone, according to a Dec ...