This step is as vital as it is tedious, because if other elements besides iron and carbon remain in the resulting sword, they will weaken it. Once the skilled smith has removed all of the slag ...

A cache of 3,000-year-old Iranian swords seized at Heathrow Airport have been revealed to be fakes created using ancient ...

This sword was probably owned by an Iron Age Chieftain and was deposited as an offering to the Gods over 2000 years ago.Iron Age 'La Tene' sword with exquisite bronze scabbard, which would have ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--An iron sword that at more than 2 meters long ranks as the largest intact ancient blade ever discovered in Japan is heavily oxidized after being buried in soil for ...