When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

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 ...

"It's heavy because of the stones that are glued to it and also because it's [an] iron sword and very big... "That means that the guy that held this sword and [fought] with it was very strong.

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.

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 ...