The sword, which is over 4 feet (1.3 meters) long, seems to have been inlaid with ... "After that there was very little sympathy in Sweden for the union," Gustafsson said. Tom Metcalfe is a ...

It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths ...

“These people became very, very powerful.” An excavation of the man's grave revealed his skull and upper arm beside a long sword. Halland Cultural Environment X-ray scans of the sword revealed ...

The remnant of the sword is about 14.5 inches (37 centimeters) long and consists of the handle, the cross guard and part of the blade. The rest of the blade is missing — about half its length ...

It’s a “very striking and a truly remarkable find ... More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh ...

The 4-foot-long sword, buried to the left of the man ... Turkey Finding swords in medieval graves is very rare, indicating that people buried along with swords likely belonged to the upper ...