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Man Buried with Roman Pugio Found in an Ancient Castle in Spain
During the construction of a new photovoltaic park at Cortijo Lobato, near Almendralejo in Spain’s Extremadura region, archaeologists made a remarkable discovery: the skeletal remains of a man buried with a Roman pugio, a type of dagger. This site, with a history dating back to the 3rd millennium BC, shows evidence of human activity extending
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3,600-Year-Old Bronze Dagger Found in the Depths of the Mediterranean
A 3,600-year-old bronze dagger with a silver needle from the Minoan civilization of Crete has been discovered during underwater excavations off the coast of the Kumluca district of Antalya in southern Turkey. Underwater archaeological excavations in Kumluca had previously unearthed a sunken ship carrying copper ingots thought to have come from the Troodos Mountains. This