British border agents recently seized a collection of smuggled Iranian swords headed for the black market. Now, researchers have discovered that the Iron Age weapons are actually pastiches: Not long ...

A metal detectorist has unearthed a long, bronze sword that was bent into an S shape during an ancient ritual in what is now Denmark. The sword and other artifacts — which were found in a bog near ...

It began with an extraordinary piece of fortune: a metal detectorist on only his second expedition coming upon two very rare cavalry swords on the brink of being lost for ever. A dig by professional ...

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, ...

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 near-2,000-year-old cache included swords and chainmail, and offers a unique window into the Nordic community that lived there. Reading time 3 minutes A team of archaeologists uncovered a trove of ...

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 ...