In the late 1920s, a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan, near the border with Iraq. They dated from the Iron Age and demonstrated how the ...

The mystery of a 2000 year-old burial containing a mirror and a sword has now been solved, with archaeologists discovering that the person buried with the grave goods was very likely a woman. The ...

Neutron imaging has helped reveal historical discrepancies hidden within a collection of illegally trafficked Iron Age swords. But the nine ancient Iranian weapons aren’t wholesale forgeries—according ...

The grave held a sword, usually buried with men, as well as a mirror, usually buried with women. Historic England Archive In 1999, a farmer stumbled upon an Iron Age grave on Bryher, a small island ...

Imaging technology has revealed that ancient swords smuggled into the UK recently have been altered by modern-day forgers, who replaced many of the original iron blades with bronze ones. What’s more, ...

A cache of 3,000-year-old Iranian swords seized at Heathrow Airport have been revealed to be fakes created using ancient hilts and blades. Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian ...

Early Iron Age Iranian bladed weaponry is crucial in understanding the metalworking technologies in one of the world's heartlands of metallurgical innovation, the ancient Near East. Illicit alteration ...

The near-2,000-year-old cache included swords and chainmail, and offers a unique window into the Nordic community that lived there. Reading time 3 minutes A team of archaeologists uncovered a trove of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be a significant Iron Age Roman settlement, potentially including a Roman villa, following the discovery of rare cavalry swords in the Cotswolds. The ...

It began with an extraordinary piece of fortune: a metal detectorist on only his second expedition coming upon two very rare cavalry swords on the brink of being lost for ever. A dig by professional ...