Because of the cramped and confined quarters, the swords were short and curved. This also helped keep ... “It’s got a full guard, it’s a cup hilt so it protects your entire hand, with ...

A curved blade of pattern-welded steel ... a symbolic Mughal representation of the right to rule. The sword’s hilt is finely chiselled and decorated with floral motifs and turquoise enamel.

The orcs want the black sword hilt he carries—the one bearing Sauron’s mark—because it’s no mere magical weapon or even a memento. It’s some kind of “key” that has the “power” to ...

Per the statement, its hilt is decorated with bronze plates and notches for easy handling. The tip of the blade is slightly curved, creating confusion over the chronology, as Visigothic swords had ...

out of approximately 3,000 total Viking swords found. The blade is missing, but the hilt has unique and exquisite detailing not previously witnessed. It would have been one of the most ornamented ...

It is a representative of the bronze full-hilt swords, whose octagonal hilt is made entirely of bronze (octagonal sword type)," a translation of the statement reads. An image of the 3,000 year-old ...

The hilt of a the recently discovered Bronze Age sword, which was extraordinarily well-preserved Archäologie-Büro Dr. Woidich / Sergiu Tifui A rare sight greeted archaeologists excavating a ...