This sword was probably owned by an Iron Age Chieftain and was deposited as an offering to the Gods over 2000 years ago.Iron Age 'La Tene' sword with exquisite bronze scabbard, which would have ...
KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--An iron sword that at more than 2 meters long ranks as the largest intact ancient blade ever discovered in Japan is heavily oxidized after being buried in soil for ...
The rookie metal detectorist discovered 2,500-year-old Late Bronze Age artifacts ... here at the end of the Bronze Age.” The sword—bronze with iron rivets—is an especially pertinent ...
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 remains were discovered alongside a 2000-year-old sword and mirror A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly was a man or woman has been solved.