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

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with ... archaeologists digging up an ancient fort in the area spotted it and cleaned it, finding a shimmering bronze blade with the intricacies ...

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.

The bronze sword was “likely given to a high-ranking ... These finds can provide valuable insight into the balance of power in the ancient Mediterranean world. The well-preserved remains serve ...

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 ...

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

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--An iron sword that at more than 2 meters long ranks as the largest intact ancient blade ever ... along with a shield-shaped bronze mirror, during excavation work ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illicit alteration and forgery of ancient objects complicates efforts ... imaging scientist at the ISIS Muon and Neutron Source, "any bronze-bladed sword with iron in the hilt may reveal to ...