AN ANCIENT sword engraved with swastikas and forged long before Jesus walked the Earth has been discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis. Uncovered intact in France after 2,300 years ...

A precise pottery-matrix casting technology appeared in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago. The thin-walled concentric circles at the tip of the sword with extremely short distance between ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--An iron sword that at more than 2 meters long ranks as the largest intact ancient blade ever discovered in Japan is heavily oxidized after being buried in soil for ...

Stewart, a 56-year-old Sydney resident, is a student at the Forge: Western Martial Arts, a club that teaches people the ancient art of sword fighting . A fan of Tolkien’s Middle-earth and the ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...