Neutron imaging has helped reveal historical discrepancies hidden within a collection of illegally trafficked Iron Age swords. But the nine ancient Iranian weapons aren’t wholesale forgeries—according ...

In the late 1920s, a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan, near the border with Iraq. They dated from the Iron Age and demonstrated how the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The iron dakō sword has heavily rusted after more than 16 centuries underground. In this photograph, a replica of the sword lies ...

At the turning point between the Bronze Age and Iron Age, two swords built with completely different methods are put into a direct head-to-head test. A cast bronze blade that can cut and stab is ...

Imaging technology has revealed that ancient swords smuggled into the UK recently have been altered by modern-day forgers, who replaced many of the original iron blades with bronze ones. What’s more, ...

Buried under the clay soil, two metal shapes accompanied a wooden coffin: one long and skinny, colored orange with rust, the other short and blunt, tinged whitish-tan with age. Archaeologists in Nara ...

The mystery of a 2000 year-old burial containing a mirror and a sword has now been solved, with archaeologists discovering that the person buried with the grave goods was very likely a woman. The ...

The sword had a bent blade, a straight hilt and an oval pommel. Researchers also found its scabbard. Riikka Saarinen / Turku Museum Center Archaeologists in Finland have unearthed a graveyard, an iron ...

Archaeologists excavating a burial mound in Nara City uncovered a wooden coffin with an almost 9-foot-long sword and a copper mirror, photos show. Photo from a screengrab of Nara City Hall's video ...