Sword Ping!
3,000 years is a really, really old one.
Any idea what it looks like?
I didn’t find a picture, but my wifi connection was freaking out... but yes, I’m really interested to find out what it looked like. It’s curious that the article says that there’s something like 20 more of them of a similar vintage that’ve been found in Norway. I didn’t know there were that many examples of swords that are that old.
Even 1,000 years is a long time for a sword to survive in any sort of recognizable shape. Steel, of course, was great on the battlefield, but it doesn’t survive well through the ages. To be that old it almost has to be all bronze. I wonder.