"5,000-year-old sword" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 26 Mar 2020 10:52 a.m. PST |
A doctoral student in Italy discovered an ancient 5,000-year-old sword in a Venetian monastery… link |
 Dentatus  | 26 Mar 2020 11:03 a.m. PST |
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| Korvessa | 26 Mar 2020 11:18 a.m. PST |
Looks more like a dagger. |
| PzGeneral | 26 Mar 2020 12:09 p.m. PST |
People were smaller then….  |
| Dagwood | 26 Mar 2020 1:46 p.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 26 Mar 2020 2:37 p.m. PST |
Looks like Frodo's to me
But awesome discovery |
| catavar | 26 Mar 2020 2:45 p.m. PST |
I wouldn't be surprised if they acquired it around 1204. |
| Dn Jackson | 26 Mar 2020 2:52 p.m. PST |
Very cool. Not to be pedantic, but…. "The sword doesn't just resemble the most ancient weapons in the world, but it was also forged around the same time, around the year 3000 B.C.," Wouldn't a bronze sword of this kind be cast rather than forged? |
| Garand | 26 Mar 2020 4:34 p.m. PST |
ISTR that bronze was forged as well, because like iron cast bronze is not as strong as forged bronze. Damon. |
| GildasFacit | 27 Mar 2020 4:57 a.m. PST |
Bronze hardens with working much more quickly than iron and gets brittle (though that also depends on what proportions are used in the alloy). Casting was the more usual method of making bronze weapons in the early bronze age. |
| Andrew Walters | 27 Mar 2020 10:35 a.m. PST |
Wow. You can't trust news stories to distinguish between forged and cast. I'd just ignore that part. Too bad they don't know where it came from. Context would add a lot. |
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