The excavation, which followed the discovery of two Roman swords in 2023, is providing historians with fresh insights into ...

Glenn Manning was only on his second metal detecting search ever when his machine pinged on two Roman-era swords in the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be a significant Iron Age Roman settlement, potentially including a Roman villa, ...

Detail on the sword found in a 2,000 year-old Iron Age burial on Bryher in the Isles of Scilly. Historic England Archive. PLB K000686. The woman is thought to have died sometime in the 1st century ...

A Roman settlement from the Iron Age has been discovered following a rare sword find, archaeologists have said. An excavation ...

Iron Age swords seized at Heathrow revealed to be glued together fakes - Discovery calls into question authenticity of ancient Iranian swords held by many museums, scientists say.

British border agents recently seized a collection of smuggled Iranian swords headed for the black market. Now, researchers have discovered that the Iron Age weapons are actually pastiches: Not ...

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 ...

Researchers have known about a possible hoard at the Iron Age hillfort for several decades. In the 1950s, while workers were constructing a pavilion, "two swords wrapped in two spearheads and two ...

The Iron Age sword and mirror found in a 2,000-year-old burial on the Isles of Scilly. (Image credit: Historic England Archive. PLB K000684) ...

The belief had been that only Iron Age women were buried with mirrors, and only warrior men with swords but the body now identified as a woman owned both, in death and presumably in life.

Iron Age swords seized at Heathrow revealed to be glued together fakes. Discovery calls into question authenticity of ancient Iranian swords held by many museums, scientists say .