Student discovers 5,000-year-old sword hidden in Venetian monastery

[Doc B]

Student discovers 5,000-year-old sword hidden in Venetian monastery

https://www.livescience.com/ancient-ana ... stery.html

[Tony_Wood]

Awesome!
Good article....except for the pop up ads and click bait that website uses.

[orvet]

Tony is correct, the article is worth the read, however the click bait is super annoying!

[herbva]

Interesting article. I think that sword would look nice on the wall in my man cave.

[fergusontd]

Looks like the sword that "Someone Carried" when when they were in the Marines! ftd

[kootenay joe]

I had no idea that a forged sword could be 5,000 years old !
kj

[carrmillus]

..........wow, now that is OLD!!!!............... .............................

[steve99f]

What's the steel?

Very neat to see there are still things to be found like that sword. Thanks for posting!

[eveled]

That thing was already 3,000 years old when Christ was born! Wow.

[Mumbleypeg]

Think I’ll try and see if she’ll go looking for knives with me. Good eye for antique cutlery!

Ken

[Montanaman]

A dagger in King Tutankhamun's tomb was forged of meteorite, FWIW.

[herbva]

What's the steel?

Very neat to see there are still things to be found like that sword. Thanks for posting!

according to the article, it's made of arsenical copper: " One of the surprises is that the weapon is made of arsenical copper, an alloy of copper and arsenic used about 5,000 years ago, before true bronze was invented by alloying copper and tin. ".

I'd still like to have it on my wall.

[WillyCamaro]

Wow! Too kool .
Thank you Doc for sharing the article .
Willy

[WillyCamaro]

Tony is correct, the article is worth the read, however the click bait is super annoying!

Hey fellers, if you all are tired of adds/tracking/spamming, get yourself some add blockers, a vpn, and a incription service. All can be had for free, and work perfect. I've been using them for over 3 years now, and no issues .
Right now as I speak I have running AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, and Avast VPN (And no, this is not an add ).
You should do it because add's/spam use up a lot of internet capacity, especially when you are using Bluetooth connection (I don't know about ethernet).
Hey Dale, you should make a post letting feller know there are these options available (more people will see it then coming from me ).
Again, cool article .
Willy

[herbva]

[herbva]

What's the steel?

Very neat to see there are still things to be found like that sword. Thanks for posting!

according to the article, it's made of arsenical copper: " One of the surprises is that the weapon is made of arsenical copper, an alloy of copper and arsenic used about 5,000 years ago, before true bronze was invented by alloying copper and tin. ".

I'd still like to have it on my wall.