"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
Wow. Good find.
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
A Hobbit sword ?
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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