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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