Languages: English, Spanish Restoration work on a metal artifact found in Berlin, Germany, has revealed it to be an "ornately decorated" Japanese sword that possibly dates to the 17th century.

The shorter sword was decorated with polished gems, two of which were carved with swastikas. Flore Giraud / INRAP Three years ago, researchers excavated a vast Celtic necropolis in central France.

Among the wreckage of a cellar in the city’s oldest square, destroyed during World War II, researchers recently uncovered a rare, finely decorated Japanese sword. The weapon could be up to 500 ...

"Who could have imagined that at a time when Japan was isolated and hardly any European travelers came to the country, such a long-used and richly decorated weapon would end up here in Berlin?" ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,300-year-old Celtic sword in France decorated with glass paste and swastika engravings, a discovery shedding more light on weapons manufactured in ancient Europe.

The sword has been removed from the ground and sent for conservation to initiate the examination and treatment of the discovery in a protective environment. The first X-ray of the find shows that the ...

The sword's guard is decorated with chrysanthemum and waterline motifs. State Museums of Berlin, Museum of Prehistory and Early History / Anica Kelp Archaeologists have discovered history buried ...