Ancient weaponsmiths combined bronze and iron to fashion swords during the early Iron Age – but modern forgers glue together ...

69cm (27in) long. See a similar bronze sword of similar size, Eastern Zhou or Han dynasty, illustrated by J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1990, p.164, no.65.

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of ... finding a shimmering bronze blade with the intricacies of an ornamental cartouche — the personal emblem used by ...

Now, researchers have discovered that the Iron Age weapons are actually pastiches: Not long ago, their original iron blades were replaced with bronze ones. After officials confiscated the swords ...

The 3,000 year-old Peebles Hoard is redefining the understanding of Scotland's Bronze Age with never-before seen treasures.

An “utterly unique” hoard of hundreds of Bronze Age items discovered by a metal ... The hoard also includes a sword still inside a wooden scabbard, bronze buttons looped on to cords, and ...

In the late 1920s, a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered ... It’s the first time the technique has been used on Iranian Iron Age swords with the findings published in the ...

Since May 2024, the State Office for Monument Conservation and Archaeology (LDA) of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, has been conducting archaeological excavations at the Hermes Fulfilment GmbH distribution ...

Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian weaponry from the Iron Age ... ancient swords when they are discovered in Iran, the forgers attached different blades made of bronze, likely ...

A Bronze Age settlement hidden on the Arabian Peninsula reveals secrets about the slow growth of urbanization in the region. A small 4,400-year-old town in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia hints ...