According to Arthurian legend, the great wizard Merlin prophesied that only the true king of England would be able to pull the famous sword Excalibur out of the stone in which it was lodged. So when ...

In 1994, archaeologists found an iron sword stuck in the ground in the ancient town of Valencia, a city located on the ...

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 ...

The traditional katana sword is fashioned only from ... Over three days and three nights, smelters using ancient techniques shovel roughly 25 tons of iron-bearing river sand and charcoal into ...

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 ...

The one-meter-long iron sword was preserved in perfect condition ... diving in the Mediterranean Sea when he came across several ancient artifacts on the seabed. Among the items Katzin found ...

The Iron Age blacksmith would make a sword by heating a bar of iron over a charcoal fire until it was white-hot and then hammering it into shape before it cooled. By reheating quenched iron to a ...

The iron for the sword may well have come from the nearby Forest of Dean and could have been processed at the metal working site of Ariconium.

It's the remains of an ancient sword. Most of the blade has turned to rust, but the hilt is very finely crafted. The Ancient Sword is an Artifact item used in the Museum. Donating this item to ...