Archaeologists discover two 2,300-year-old Celtic swords encrusted with glass and copper in France, revealing ancient ...

Was the Iberian Peninsula’s Bronze Age more advanced technologically than history has given it credit for? New study of the ...

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...

Metal objects discovered in burial 990: fibula, belt rings and sword. Credit: Flore Giraud / Inrap The two most striking tombs, however, are those that have preserved complete swords still in their ...

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 ...

A recent study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences explores the development and unique characteristics of Late Bronze Age swords found in the Balearic Islands (Spain). These ...

Bronze Age sword still in its wooden scabbard features in 3,000-year-old hoard of 'exceptional' objects that are saved for the nation after lucky metal detectorist is handed undisclosed sum ...

We have no written evidence about how people lived in Europe during the Bronze Age (2300–800 BCE), so archaeologists piece together their world from the artifacts and materials they left behind ...

The hilt or handle had unusually been cast in bronze and was shaped to mimic a wooden handle. It had similarities with solid-cast hilts of Nordic swords from Scandinavia even though it was another ...

The Bronze Age hoard was found by a metal detectorist Mark Herman, in the Vale of Glamorgan in southeast Wales in 2019. The artifacts have now been looked at by curators, who have determined their ...

Although the gilding has endured on most of the ring’s surface, there is some wear visible along the borders. This form is consistent with post medieval and early 16th century date. Most notably, a ...