Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought. A revolutionary new method ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have ...

A metal detectorist recently discovered not one, but two bronze and wood daggers that experts dated to over 3,000 years ago. Only the bronze portions of the instruments survived for so long buried in ...

CHICHESTER, ENGLAND—The tests results are in, and Racton Man’s bronze dagger, discovered by a metal detectorist in 1989, has been dated to 4,200 years ago, making it the earliest securely dated bronze ...

Beginning in about 1700 B.C., a new material became available in northern Europe that would change the way entire classes of objects were made and how wealth and status were expressed. In Denmark, ...

During a routine walk through the woods near Gudersleben, a village in Thuringia, Germany, a father and his two young sons encountered an extraordinary piece of the past. Lying exposed on the forest ...

The daggers, which were discovered during several excavations from an archeological site in the Sangtarashan village, were restored by cultural heritage experts in a laboratory in the Sassanid-era ...

Long thought by many to have been used as a symbol of male identity and power, turns out they were used for something more mundane. Used widely throughout Europe during the Bronze Age including the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient bronze dagger associated with a sophisticated, extinct ...

Experts believe a skeleton discovered with one of the oldest bronze daggers found in the UK was a high ranking warrior chief. The near complete skeleton found on arable land in Racton, Chichester, ...

For more than 4,000 years a man lay buried in a corner of a Sussex field, far from the land of his childhood, holding a rare and precious object. Then for another 23 years he lay in a museum store ...