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This 2,500-year-old Chinese sword looks like "something from the J.R.R. Tolkien universe that has entered the actual historical record"
(Look at those gold-inlaid ideographs ... an intricate variant of ancient Chinese writing. After months of analysis, experts concluded the inscription reads "King of Yue made this sword for ...
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Massive ancient sword still requires months of cleaning
KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--An iron sword that at more than 2 meters long ranks as the largest intact ancient blade ever discovered in Japan is heavily oxidized after being buried in soil for ...