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 ...

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. A revolutionary new method ...

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 ...

An incredible Bronze Age ceremonial dagger has been unveiled, after being used as a doorstep for more than a decade. A museum has paid £40,000 ($63,000) for the rare 3,500-year-old dagger ploughed up ...

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 metal detectorist recently discovered not one, but two bronze and wood daggers that experts dated to over 3,000 years ago. Only the bronze portions of the instruments survived for so long buried in ...

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 ...