article_snippet.sent: (CNN)The complete skeleton of a camel thought to to have been used by Ottoman troops besieging Vienna in the 17th century has been found beneath a cellar in Austria.
article_snippet.sent: the skeleton of a camel below a cellar in an Austrian village was at first suspected to be a large horse or cattle," archaeozoologist Alfred Galik said.
article_snippet.sent: But one look at the cervical vertebrae, the lower jaw and the metacarpal bones immediately revealed that this was a camel.
article_snippet.sent: While other camel bones have been found in Central Europe, the researchers said this was unique.
article_snippet.sent: It is the first complete camel skeleton found in Central Europe and Central European territories under the control of the Ottoman Empire, apart from the complete skeleton of a dromedary recovered from the sediments of the Theodosius harbor on the European part of Istanbul.
highlights_snippet.sent: Archaeologists have found the skeleton of a camel below a cellar in an Austrian village .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Archaeologists believe a camel below a cellar in an Austrian village was from the 17th century  