Iron Sword Dubbed as 'Excalibur' Found Upright in Ground ... Smithsonian Magazine reported. Its hilt is decorated with bronze ...
Ancient weaponsmiths combined bronze and iron to fashion swords during the early Iron Age – but modern forgers glue together ...
Bronze swords dating back to the Iron Age have just unveiled a well-kept secret. Thanks to an innovative imaging technique, researchers have uncovered modern modifications on these weapons, proving ...
“conclusively showing that ‘iron cores’ were not a technological feature in these bronze swords, but a result of modern tampering.” The findings not only evidence the prevalence of modern ...
First discovered in 1963, the Treasure of Villena is a haul of 66 items largely made of gold and silver. The treasure – ...
their original iron blades were replaced with bronze ones. After officials confiscated the swords, they sent them to the British Museum. There, with permission from Iranian authorities ...
A cache of 3,000-year-old Iranian swords seized at Heathrow Airport have been revealed to be fakes created using ancient ...
Instead of the small stumps of iron that are often all that is left of the blades in ancient swords when they are discovered in Iran, the forgers attached different blades made of bronze ...