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A metal detectorist has discovered a 4, 000-year- old copper dagger , likely from an elite warrior, in a forest near the village of Korzenica in southeast Poland. "The Korzenica dagger is so far the oldest metal dagger discovered [in] south-eastern Poland," said Marcin Burghardt, an archaeologist at the Orsetti Tenement House Museum in Poland who analyzed the dagger. "The only similar dagger in Poland was uncovered in the [1960s] so the new find comes as a great surprise," Burghardt told Live Science. A team went to examine the spot where the metal detectorist discovered the dagger but found no other artifacts. "When we examined the spot, we found neither additional finds nor traces of archaeological features," Burghardt said. Because of the lack of additional artifacts, "we cannot link the dagger to a specific archaeological culture," Burghardt added. Related: Perfectly preserved 7, 000-year- old skeleton unearthed during renovation in...

But X-ray scans have revealed that this grapefruit-sized lump is a 30, 000-year- old mummified ground squirrel from the ice age. A gold miner found the Mysterious fur ball in 2018 in the Klondike gold fields near Dawson City, Yukon, according to the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre. “It’s not quite recognizable until you see these little hands and these claws, and you see a little tail, and then you see ears,” Grant Zazula, a Yukon government paleontologist, told CBC in March. He took it to Jess Heath, a veterinarian, for further investigation. Heath conducted X-ray scans that revealed that the frozen hair ball was a young, curled-up Arctic ground squirrel . It likely died in hibernation, possibly during its first year. “We could see that it was in great condition and it was just curled up like it was sleeping,” Heath told CBC. “I’m really impressed that someone recognized it for what it was. From the outside, it just kind of looks like a brown blob. It looks a b...