Early Iron Age Iranian bladed weaponry is crucial ... The paper, "Neutron tomography reveals extensive modern modification in Iron Age Iranian swords," is published in the Journal of ...

“Early Iron Age Iranian bladed weaponry plays a significant ... researchers said the swords will eventually be repatriated to Iran. Meanwhile, Rodzinka and colleagues have shown neutron ...

Inside the swords, researchers indeed found the use ... to understanding how common combining bronze and iron was in early Iron Age metallurgy. The swords, which are part of a larger cache of ...

Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian weaponry from the Iron Age after they were first discovered in the 1920s, becoming a popular item of display and research. Yet several swords ...

Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is ...

The sword, which has iron rivets in its handle ... were often deposited in bogs as sacrifices during the early and middle Bronze Age in northern Europe, "We don't know that many from the latter ...

The sword was found at a strange second Iron Age burial site, lacking any skeletons due to the acidity of the soil. However, researchers uncovered several metal artefacts at the site, including ...