Dazzling ancient bronze sword found in Germany

German archaeologists are thrilled to person dug up a Bronze Age sword much than 3,000 years aged which is extraordinarily good preserved.

The bronze sword with an octagonal hilt was recovered successful a sedate successful the confederate municipality of Nördlingen. It is thought to beryllium from the precocious 14th Century BC.

Its information is truthful bully "it astir inactive shines", Bavaria's State Office for Monument Protection (BLfD) says.

The sedate contains the bones of a man, pistillate and boy, and different bronze items.

The archaeologists are not definite whether the 3 were related, and the rarity of the find raises questions astir the sword's origin.

The BLfD says manufacturing specified a sword was complicated, arsenic the hilt was formed connected to the blade. The Nördlingen sword does not look to person been utilized successful anger, but it is believed to person been a existent weapon, not conscionable ornamental.