 The Aurignacian culture has been called the first modern humans in Europe.The origins of the town are not defined, although the 1957 discovery of the remains of a Roman habitation, with a well-preserved bath-house, from the present-day town suggests that the area was inhabited during the Gallo-Roman period.In 777 a Benedictine priory was founded in Aurignac as a dependency of the Abbey of Saint Tiberi in the diocese of Agde.