He added that sun and moon designs can also be found on short swords throughout continental Europe from the third and fourth centuries B.C. The second sword was longer and its scabbard still has ...

He added that sun and moon designs can also be found on short swords throughout continental Europe from the third and fourth centuries B.C. The second sword was longer and its scabbard still has ...

Archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) said in a translated statement that the metal ornaments and weapons found in the skeleton-less tomb were ...

One sword featured a richly decorated bronze alloy sheath. The edges of the scabbard of the short sword are adorned with several polished gemstones, at least two of which are engraved with swastikas.

Its scabbard allowed it to be worn at the ... feature swastika decorations and probably glass paste. The sword consists of a short, elongated, pointed blade with a handle with antennas, made ...

This sword was probably owned by an Iron Age Chieftain and was deposited as an offering to the Gods over 2000 years ago.Iron Age 'La Tene' sword with exquisite bronze scabbard, which would have ...

The sword that was found was still in its wooden scabbard. And the remains of complex decorative straps have also survived more than three millennia in the ground. Mr Stępień was searching a ...

and one was determined to be a ring-pommel sword, with a short 45 cm blade. All four were found with their iron blades still sheathed in their wooden scabbards, boasting handles made with wood or ...

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's ...

The most striking items found at the necropolis were the two well-preserved swords. An X-ray analysis of the short blade whose scabbard had the swastikas revealed embedded symbols at the blade's ...