Three swords with iron blades were still protected in their wooden and leather sheaths, each measuring between 24 and 26 inches in the style of Roman “spatha” swords. The fourth sword was ...

The only other Roman sword that, like this sword ... the blade which would resume it is shape when released. The iron for the sword may well have come from the nearby Forest of Dean and could ...

The soldiers were the best trained, they had the best weapons and ... alderwood that the Roman soldier have written to each other and further afield with an old fashioned iron pen that they ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...