Archaeologists in northern Germany have unearthed 10,000-year-old cremated bones at a Stone Age lakeside campsite that was used for spearing fish and roasting hazelnuts.
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The recovered machine was rusted but relatively intact, with several keys and their letters clearly visible.
The team quickly realized they had stumbled across a historical artifact and alerted the authorities. They turned the machine over to a museum for restoration earlier this month.
An enigma cipher machine found in the Baltic Sea in front of the archaeological office of German federal state Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig, Germany, December 4, 2020. (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP, File)
The Nazis produced thousands of the machines in several models, but only a few hundred are known to have survived until today. They are considered valuable collector items Christie’s auction house sold an enigma machine in July for $440,000.