Chinese archaeologists have recently unearthed a short bronze sword in one of the seven newly-discovered pits of chariots and horses in the famous ruins of Yin, in Anyang city of central China's ...

A Chinese boy has stumbled across a 3,000 year old bronze sword in a river in Jiangsu ... purposes and was not built for combat. “The short sword seems a status symbol of a civil official ...

A Chinese boy has stumbled across a 3,000-year-old bronze sword dating back to the ... the qualification to have such artefact. 'The short sword seems a status symbol of a civil official.

The thin-walled concentric circles at the tip of the sword with extremely short distance ... demonstrate that Chinese workers were able to make use of composite bronze materials to improve a ...

"The short sword seems a status symbol of a civil official. It has both decorative and practical functions, but is not in the shape of sword for military officers." It is the second bronze ...

A Chinese boy has made the discovery of a lifetime by stumbling across a 3,000-year-old bronze sword in a river in Jiangsu Province. Eleven-year-old Yang Junxi says he touched the rusty weapon's ...