3,000-year-old shining sword found in Germany

Archaeologists from Germany found a sword that is approximately 3,000 years old. Although the blade was made during the Bronze Age, it is well preserved and still gleams.

The weapon was found in a grave with the remains of a man, a woman and a teenager in the city of Nördlingen in Bavaria. Scientists do not yet know the origin of these people and the cause of their death, but it has already been established that they were buried at different times.

The sword has an octagonal bronze hilt with decorative inserts, cast over a bronze blade, and four rivets. Researchers believe that this is not a decorative, but a combat sample, although it does not have characteristic “scars”. However, this is yet to be proven.

It is not yet clear who made it. The gun could have been brought from another region, because similar ones have already been found in Denmark and northern Germany. It is also possible that this is the work of a local blacksmith.