In the late 1920s, a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan, near the border with Iraq. They dated from the Iron Age and demonstrated how the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nine Iranian swords analyzed in this study. (Credit: Rodzinka, et al.) Neutron imaging has helped reveal historical discrepancies ...

The grave held a sword, usually buried with men, as well as a mirror, usually buried with women. Historic England Archive In 1999, a farmer stumbled upon an Iron Age grave on Bryher, a small island ...

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Imaging technology has revealed that ancient swords smuggled into the UK recently have been altered by modern-day forgers, who replaced many of the original iron blades with bronze ones. What’s more, ...

The items were discovered with a young Iron Age man buried about 2,000 years ago in Alloa ...

The paper, " Neutron tomography reveals extensive modern modification in Iron Age Iranian swords," is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Neutron tomography, which uses neutrons rather ...

A cache of 3,000-year-old Iranian swords seized at Heathrow Airport have been revealed to be fakes created using ancient hilts and blades. Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be a significant Iron Age Roman settlement, potentially including a Roman villa, following the discovery of rare cavalry swords in the Cotswolds. The ...

It began with an extraordinary piece of fortune: a metal detectorist on only his second expedition coming upon two very rare cavalry swords on the brink of being lost for ever. A dig by professional ...