Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is ...

Both swords were found intact in their scabbards. One sword featured a richly ... some inlaid with polished gemstones, dating back to the third and fourth centuries BCE. One brooch, adorned ...

This sword once belonged to the paramount chief of ... Traditionally the Iban marked the taking of a head with a tattoo on the back of one joint of one finger. Kohâ??s hands were tattooed all ...

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 ...

Both swords were found intact in their scabbards. One of the swords has an ornate, copper-alloy scabbard designed to be worn at the waist. Several polished gems decorate the scabbard's edges ...