Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old sword – Information in Germany

AArchaeologists have made a uncommon discover in Nördlingen, Bavaria: Throughout excavations, specialists found a bronze sword greater than 3,000 years previous, because the State Workplace for the Preservation of Monuments introduced on Wednesday. That is so nicely preserved “that it virtually nonetheless shines”.

It’s an octagonal sword with an octagonal hilt made solely of bronze. In response to a preliminary classification, it got here from the late 14th century BC and thus from the Center Bronze Age, it was mentioned.

Sword finds from this epoch are mentioned to be uncommon and both got here from burial mounds that have been intentionally opened within the nineteenth century or are particular person, presumed sacrificial finds. The sword now found got here from a grave supplied with wealthy bronze objects. A person, a girl and a youth have been buried in it. It’s nonetheless unclear what relationship the folks might have needed to each other.

The sword and the burial nonetheless should be examined, mentioned Conservator Normal Mathias Pfeil, head of the Bavarian State Workplace for the Preservation of Monuments. “However we are able to already say: the state of preservation is outstanding!”