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Sword with pharaoh’s mark found in Egypt, still shimmering 3,000 years later
More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.
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This 2,500-year-old Chinese sword looks like "something from the J.R.R. Tolkien universe that has entered the actual historical record"
The Sword of Goujian, named after a legendary Chinese king, emerged from a waterlogged tomb in China's Hubei Province looking as lethal as the day it was crafted. Its secrets lie in its ...