'Extremely rare' 3,000-year-old sword discovered in Germany is so well preserved it SHINES, archaeologists say

Daily Mail ^ | June 16, 2023 | Lauren Haughey

[SunkenCiv]

• Golden Necklaces Discovered in Bronze Age Tomb [Poland] [03/09/2023]
• Discovery of Bronze Age child's shoe suggests perennial problem of toddlers dropping their things stretches back 3,000 years [02/24/2023]
• Sword Mistaken For Replica Is Actually An Ancient 3,000-Year-Old Weapon [01/25/2023]
• Archaeologists Unearth 3,000-Year-Old Wishing Well in Germany [01/22/2023]
• Bronze Age gold belt with 'cosmological' designs unearthed in Czech beet field [10/30/2022]
• Czech scientists reveal striking look of a Bronze Age woman from Bohemia [06/02/2022]
• We Thought We Knew What These Ancient Daggers Were Used For, But We Were Wrong [05/10/2022]
• Research finally answers what Bronze Age daggers were used for [05/02/2022]
• Central European prehistory was highly dynamic [12/12/2021]
• 4000-year-old sword found in Finland [3700 years] [10/12/2021]
• Exploring the life story of a high-status woman from isotope data in Hungary's largest Bronze Age cemetery bronze age cemeteries [10/12/2021]
• 'Europe's oldest battle' in Germany's Tollense Valley 3,250 years ago may actually have been a brutal MASSACRE of 1,400 Bronze Age merchants [10/26/2020]
• Cryptic Nebra sky disk might not be so ancient after all, say scientists [09/05/2020]
• Mysterious 5000 year-old sword discovered... [03/26/2020]
• 5,000-year-old sword discovered in Venice [03/01/2020]
• What Europe's most ancient battlefield reveals [10/09/2017]
• Unexpected and Gruesome Battle of 1250 BC Involved 4,000 Men from Across Northern Europe [03/25/2016]
• "Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank" [05/22/2011]
• Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank [05/22/2011]
• Ancient Germany's Metal Traders [05/06/2012]
• Archaeologists find bones from prehistoric war in Germany [10/11/2008]
• Celestial Bronze Age disc recovered [10/04/2002]
• Bronze Age observatory to be rebuilt in Germany [09/15/2002]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks algore!

[Red Badger]

So, the ‘finder’ is now KING OF GERMANY!....................

[Tell It Right]

Photo of the young man holding the sword 3,000 years ago:

[BenLurkin]

[Red Badger]

Swords from Nördlingen often belonged to the 'Urns' during this period- distinguished by their custom of cremation during the late Bronze era.

So, that's where we get the idea of putting peoples ashes in 'Urns'....................

[one guy in new jersey]

Brian Williams?

[Fiji Hill]

Nördlingen is the site of a battle in 1634, during the Thirty Years War, in which the Spanish army destroyed the Swedish army.

[Red Badger]

Cosmoline...................

[one guy in new jersey]

Looks like a bad-ass weapon.

[woodbutcher1963]

Conan the Barbarian

[wally_bert]

Having an ancient sword is no basis for supreme executive power.

[woodbutcher1963]

I’m being oppressed...

[Red Badger]

BiteMe Biden..............

[Red Badger]

Tell that to the Brits...............

[dfwgator]

I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

[dfwgator]

Who are the Britons?

[ClearCase_guy]

[gibsonguy]

Excalibur

[one guy in new jersey]

That fictitious fellow wielded a two-handed broadsword, IIRC.

This looks like a one-handed sword.

Not much less lethal, though, probably.