The Polish Press Agency (PAP) reports that a metal detectorist in Poland has discovered an incredibly rare copper dagger that may be more than 4,000 years old. According to PAP, a man named Piotr Gorlacz made the find while searching with a metal detector in the forests near the village of Korzenica.
He said he was returning to his car after completing his search, leaving his metal detector on out of habit, and at one point he heard a beep. As Gorlacz began digging in the ground, he noticed a flat metal object with a green patina, quickly realizing that it was something older than the World War I and World War II military items he had been looking for in the region.
The man subsequently informed archaeologists from the Orsetti House Museum in Jaroslav about his find, who analyzed the discovered object. Specialists found that the time of origin of the dagger could be the second half of the third millennium B.C. As the scientists noted, in that period copper objects were extremely rare, and they preceded the appearance of the first products of bronze.
