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Soldiers Sweeping for Land Mines in South Korea Have Unearthed the Country’s Oldest Gun, a 600-Year-Old Inscribed Bronze Tube
The artifact was found in 2023 during a metal detecting survey. Experts have been analyzing it since and recently confirmed its authenticity