More than 100 weapons were discovered underneath the house of an Iron Age chieftain in Denmark. The 1,500-year-old collection may have served as an offering. Denmark was right at the edge of the ...

The sheer number of weapons is astonishing, but what fascinates me most is the glimpse they provide into the societal structure and daily life of the Iron Age. We suddenly feel very close to the ...

The deposit is a weapon sacrifice—literally, the weapons were the things sacrificed. Over 1,500 years ago, an Iron Age community deposited over 100 lances, spears, swords, knives, arrowheads ...

“The sheer number of weapons is astonishing, but what fascinates me most is the glimpse they provide into the societal structure and daily life of the Iron Age,” he said. Additional analysis ...

The demand for Iranian Iron Age weapons began after a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan in the late 1920s. A recent study by ...

Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian weaponry from the Iron Age after they were first discovered in the 1920s, becoming a popular item of display and research. Yet several swords ...

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The swords in question come from what is now Iran and date to an important moment in history: the end of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Iron Age. As the names suggest, this marked a ...