A doctoral student in Italy discovered an ancient 5,000-year-old sword in a Venetian monastery. The student, Vittoria Dall'Armellina, was visiting the San Lazzaro degli Armeni Museum on an island ...

a small island off the Venetian Lagoon, when she spotted a familiar looking sword. The sword, mistakenly grouped with medieval artifacts, was thought to be a few hundred years old at most.

“I was pretty sure of the antiquity of the sword,” Dall’Armellina tells Live Science’s Tom Metcalfe in an email. Housed at a monastery on the Venetian island of San Lazzaro degli ...

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Sitting atop a tiny island in the Venetian lagoon ... something caught Dall’Armellina’s attention: a metal sword, about 17 inches long, resembling those she came across in her studies as ...

Sitting atop a tiny island in the Venetian lagoon ... something caught Dall’Armellina’s attention: a metal sword, about 17 inches long, resembling those she came across in her studies as ...

The ancient sword was thought to be medieval in origin ... a tiny island on the edge of the Venetian lagoon. The visit had nothing to do with her studies, and she'd never been there before.

Here's a set of Apa-type swords dated to 1600 BC, 1400-1800 years later: As for how an Anatolian blade circa 3300 BC wound up in a Venetian monastery, a civil engineer named Yervant Khorasandjian ...

Sitting atop a tiny island in the Venetian lagoon ... something caught Dall’Armellina’s attention: a metal sword, about 17 inches long, resembling those she came across in her studies as ...

A sword that had been on display as part of a ... The monastery is located on a tiny artificial island within the Venetian Lagoon and is now a trove of Armenian cultural treasures.