Bronze Age swords make for impressive museum displays, but how were they used? To find the answer, scientists teamed up with history enthusiasts to combine laboratory studies with staged experimental ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We see a sword with a green handle in the mud. Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a sword from a Bronze Age burial, and the ...

VEKSØ, DENMARK—According to a Live Science report, a metal detectorist recovered a Bronze Age sword from a bog in eastern Denmark. The hefty design of the weapon suggests that it had been made by the ...

German archeologists have discovered a 3,000-year-old sword during excavations outside the Bavarian town of Nördlingen. The weapon, which dates to the 14th century B.C.E., in the middle of the Bronze ...

In this video, I demonstrate the process of creating a bronze (10% tin) cast Xiphos sword. Topics covered include: - Sourcing metals - Bronze alloy specifics - Pattern creation and mold making - The c ...

A man searching for mushrooms in a forest in the Czech Republic found much more than he was looking for when he uncovered an ancient sword and bronze axe, both thought to date from around 3,300 years ...