This practice was common in Denmark during the Iron Age, though most sacrificial finds occur in bogs. This discovery marks a rare example of weapons being buried near residential areas.

More than 100 weapons were discovered underneath the house of an Iron Age chieftain in Denmark. The 1,500-year-old collection may have served as an offering. Denmark was right at the edge of the ...

According to the National Museum of Denmark, 20 Danish bogs contained Iron Age weaponry with “traces of ritual destruction.” Those weapons may have been offerings to the gods.

“The sheer number of weapons is astonishing, but what fascinates me most is the glimpse they provide into the societal structure and daily life of the Iron Age. We suddenly feel very close to ...

These kinds of modified weapons are somewhat common. Iran is known for weapons made during the Iron Age, which lasted from around 1250 to 550 B.C.E.

“The sheer number of weapons is astonishing, but what fascinates me most is the glimpse they provide into the societal structure and daily life of the Iron Age,” he said.

In the late 1920s, a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan, near the border with Iraq. They dated from the Iron Age and demonstrated how ...

Neutron imaging has helped reveal historical discrepancies hidden within a collection of illegally trafficked Iron Age swords. But the nine ancient Iranian weapons aren’t wholesale forgeries ...

By 1200 B.C.E., however, we had entered the Iron Age, and it was during this period that we developed the first steel swords, which were generally ... but perhaps twice as long ago as that — it ...

Ancient weaponsmiths combined bronze and iron to fashion swords during the early Iron Age – but modern forgers glue together elements from different weapons, making it difficult for researchers ...

An remarkably well-preserved child's shoe from the Iron Age has been found in Austria. ... This era was marked by the production of iron tools and weapons, which replaced their bronze equivalents.