Workers carrying out dredging work in the Wisla River in the city of Wroclawek came across the 'perfectly preserved' sword after spotting 'an oblong, metal object' sticking out of the sediment.

It was found in a cemetery for high-social-status individuals that's being kept secret from the public due to the value.

Previously, another sword was found in the river in the 1970s during ... The sword appears to have connections to the Viking Age, an era that spanned from about 800 to 1050 C.E. During this ...

Three high-status women, though perhaps not Scandinavians themselves, were, or perhaps were not, interred there.

An eight-year-old found a pre-Viking-era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer. Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidostern lake while at her family's holiday home in ...

Conservator Dana Goodburn-Brown, who examined the sword under a microscope, discovered that the inside ... The kingdoms eventually united to fight against Viking invaders. The first king of ...

Goods found with the bodies also appeared to have been through the cremation fires. Sword and buckles, nails and wire embroidery all suggested these had been Viking cremations. In Norway ...

Archaeologists found a sixth-century Saxon sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural Kent. The discovery, which will be featured in BBC Two's forthcoming series Digging for Britain, was described ...

It was the grave of a male Viking and he was found buried in a ship of "local trading size", along with "everything he might need in the afterlife", although the absence of a sword has led to the ...

Inside the grave, archaeologists discovered jewelry and oval-shaped brooches typical of Viking women's attire ... and a weaving sword—all tools used in textile production.