The iron is barely corroded due to the oxygen-poor environment of the wet soil it was buried in, and traces of the wooden ...

A construction crew discovered a 1,000-year-old iron sword in the Netherlands still fully intact. The short sword comes ...

The artifact was remarkably preserved for a millennium in anaerobic clay on a private estate near the city of Montfoort ...

Archaeologists had a sword fight for science ... The researchers then took cross sections of the weapons to make sure their interior composition matched what a Bronze Age process would produce.

The nine swords are roughly 3,000 years old but were recently altered using modern methods and ... but modern drill holes identified by their circular cross-sections and too-perfect outlines.

A medieval sword has gone on display at a museum in the Netherlands after its chance discovery during a dredging operation on ...