Ancient weaponsmiths combined bronze and iron to fashion swords during the early Iron Age – but modern forgers glue together ...

These swords are valuable witnesses to the metallurgical expertise of ancient Iran. However, their alteration complicates the analysis of these techniques, which date back 3,000 years, a pivotal time ...

They dated from the Iron Age and demonstrated how the region had pioneered a range of metallurgical innovations that gradually spread across the ancient ... in these bronze swords, but a result ...

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 ...

The Bronze Age Peebles Hoard, which includes a sword and decorated trinkets ... generations and uncover the stories of Scotland's ancient past.' Professor Ian Sinclair, founder of the µ-VIS ...

The results are unequivocal: some swords were recently modified, creating "pastiches" of ancient weapons. Bronze fragments ...

The speartip was of a flat leaf shape and was typically made of iron or bronze depending on the period ... one-handed shortsword. For most ancient Greek soldiers, swords like the xiphos would have ...

A recent analysis by archaeologist Nicoletta Antognelli Michel of the Technical University of Darmstadt has led to a ...

In this first installment, Ganor investigates the famed linen armor of Ancient Greece, known as the linothorax.

Since May 2024, the State Office for Monument Conservation and Archaeology (LDA) of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, has been conducting archaeological excavations at the Hermes Fulfilment GmbH distribution ...