Swords first appeared during the Bronze Age. But scholars aren’t sure whether they were a prestige item — made for show — or designed primarily to kill. Swords developed on human beings over hundreds ...

A bronze sword made more than 3,000 years ago that is so well-preserved it “almost still shines” has been unearthed in Germany, officials say. Bavaria’s state office for the preservation of historical ...

At a recent excavation in the Donau-Ries region of Germany, a bronze sword has been unearthed that's reported to be more than 3,000 years old, and is so well preserved that the archeologists who ...

Researchers staged fights using recreated Bronze Age weapons to better understand how they might have been used in ancient fighting. Hermann et al. / Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory To ...