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'A flash of copper caught our attention': 4,000-year-old dagger discovered deep in Italian cave

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Archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old copper dagger and fragments of human skulls deep in a cave in Italy .

The dagger is one of several artifacts unearthed in Tina Jama Cave , in the "Karst Plateau " of exposed limestone along Italy 's northeast border with Slovenia .

Archaeologists are using "structure-from-motion photogrammetry" to create virtual 3D maps from two -dimensional images.