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The 3,400-year-old Mycenaean Agate Sword features a translucent stone handle and gold rosettes that redefine the artistry of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shipment of ancient weapons intercepted at Philadelphia International Airport has been seized by U.S. Customs and Border ...

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 ...

The researchers examined eight Iranian swords in their study. Journal of Archaeological Science British border agents recently seized a collection of smuggled Iranian swords headed for the black ...

The rare artifacts date back to around 500 BCE—and the detectorist's second go was somehow just as fortuitous. Reading time 3 minutes It’s unusual to achieve something on your first try. But Claus ...

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, ...

An Iron Age Roman settlement has been discovered following a rare sword find, archaeologists have revealed. The excavation near a Cotswolds village has revealed what could be evidence of a Roman villa ...