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Metal Detectorists Stumble Upon a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Roman Sword in Poland
Rafał Proszowski and Mariusz Lampa were searching for World War II-era artifacts in the snowy woods of the Polish Jura when their metal detectors revealed an unexpected—and much rarer—item. Instead of ...
Polish Treasure Hunters Unearth Seriously Badass Two-Handed Medieval Sword
The remarkably well-preserved sword dates to the Late Middle Ages, in an archaeological find that's metal as hell.
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2,000-Year-Old Roman Sword Found By Metal Detectorists In The Forests Of Southern Poland
Based on initial examinations, experts believe it to be an ancient spatha sword, a weapon typical of Roman infantry. The blade had also been broken into three parts, suggesting it may have been ...
The ancient Roman sword, found in the River Lugg
In the 2nd and 3rd Centuries AD, long and straight, double-edged swords were the norm for the Roman armies, slightly longer ...
Metal detectorists searching for WWII artifacts uncover much older and rarer weapon
A pair of metal detectorists bundled up and headed into a snowy forest in Poland. They hoped to find some artifacts from World War II — yet stumbled upon a much older and rarer weapon.
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Polish detectorists find 2,000-year-old Roman spatha sword while searching for WWII relics
In the dense forests of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, experts from the INVENTUM Association discovered a nearly 2000-year-old Roman sword. According to Turystyka WP, the find was made in the ...