Previous investigations into the use of Bronze Age weapons either applied experimental techniques, such as recreations of combat, or metalwork wear analysis, in which scientists use microscopes to ...

The sword was discovered during archaeological excavations in Nördlingen, a town in the Donau-Ries district of Swabia, Bavaria. The weapon, which dates to the middle Bronze Age, is so remarkably ...

After decades of debate and assumptions, archaeologists have picked up their Bronze Age swords to find out whether these soft metal weapons could really hack it in combat. For a long time, ...

At a recent excavation in the Donau-Ries region of Germany, a bronze sword has been unearthed that's reported to be more than 3,000 years old, and is so well preserved that the archeologists who ...

Researchers staged fights using recreated Bronze Age weapons to better understand how they might have been used in ancient fighting. Hermann et al. / Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory To ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed a long, bronze sword that was bent into an S shape during an ancient ritual in what is now Denmark. The sword and other artifacts — which were found in a bog near ...

At Chicago's Field Museum, what was thought to be a modern replica of a Bronze Age sword turned out to be the real deal. The artifact actually dates back 3,000 years, the museum announced last week.

In 2023, archaeologists working near the town of Nördlingen in Bavaria made an extraordinary discovery. While excavating a Bronze Age burial site, they uncovered a 3,000-year-old sword so ...