'Extremely Rare' 4,000-Year-Old Copper Dagger Discovered in Forest

[Judi Lynn]

Published Mar 01, 2024 at 2:47 PM EST
Updated Mar 01, 2024 at 4:50 P

By Aristos Georgiou
Science and Health Reporter

An "extremely rare" copper dagger thought to be more than 4,000 years old has been discovered by a metal detectorist in Poland.

Piotr Gorlach made the find while conducting a search with his metal detector in the forests near the village of Korzenica, Subcarpathia Province, in the southeast of the country, near the Ukrainian border, the Polish Press Agency reported

"I'm done searching for the day. When I returned to the car, I left the detector on out of habit. At some point, there was a signal. When I was digging up the forest floor, I saw a flat metal object covered with green patina. I quickly realized that I was dealing with something much older than the military items from World War I and II that I was looking for in this area," Gorlach told PAP.

Gorlach subsequently informed archaeologists from the Orsetti House Museum in Jarosław about his find, who carried out a preliminary investigation of the artifact.

According to archaeologist Marcin Burghardt with the Jarosław museum, the dagger can be dated to the second half of the 3rd millennium B.C.

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