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.

“Any bronze-bladed sword with iron in the hilt may reveal to be a pastiche.” Identifying altered Iron Age artifacts is not only essential to the study of ancient technological innovatio ...

Instead of the small stumps of iron that are often all that is left of the blades in ancient swords when they are discovered in Iran, the forgers attached different blades made of bronze ...

Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...

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

Bronze swords dating back to the Iron Age have just unveiled a well-kept secret. Thanks to an innovative imaging technique, ...

Inside the swords, researchers indeed found the use ... often made of iron—with different (but probably also ancient) bronze blades,” researchers wrote in the report, “conclusively showing ...

The grave of the unknown warrior was discovered back in the 1960s but a new study claims to have uncovered further details.

Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age ...

A cache of 3,000-year-old Iranian swords seized at Heathrow Airport have been revealed to be fakes created using ancient ...