Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have discovered two well-preserved Bronze Age daggers which are believed to date ...

The family was walking near the village of Gudersleben when they found a plate-tanged dagger. The dagger may have once belonged to a warrior, and could have been a ritual offering. The easiest ...

The metal detectorist found shards of the daggers back in 2017, gaining the attention of archaeologists and researchers. Photo by Stade District / Christian Schmidt In a cornfield in northern Germany, ...

X-rays of a sword that had been sitting in museum storage reveals that it’s actually from the Bronze Age. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought. First appearing in the ...

During a routine walk through the woods near Gudersleben, a village in Thuringia, Germany, a father and his two young sons encountered an extraordinary piece of the past. Lying exposed on the forest ...

A weapon as legendary as the dagger of King Tutankhamun needs an epic backstory, and last year X-ray analysis showed that the iron in the ancient blade had come from meteorites. Now, a French study ...

Beginning in about 1700 B.C., a new material became available in northern Europe that would change the way entire classes of objects were made and how wealth and status were expressed. In Denmark, ...

First appearing in the early 4 th millennium BCE, copper-alloy daggers were widespread in Bronze Age Europe including Britain and Ireland. Yet archaeologists have long debated what these objects were ...