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A Ritual Sword From the Bronze Age Turned Up on the Site of a Planned Parking Lot in Sardinia Revealing a Nuragic Settlement that Lasted Until the Middle Ages

In 2019, workers preparing the ground for a gas pipeline and a new parking lot in the village of Loculi, in the interior of Sardinia, began to find ancient structures. Seven years later, those structures belong to an archaeological site of about 700 square metres (7,500 square feet). The remains it holds range from the […]

Sword From the Age of Ramesses II Pulled From an Italian Volcanic Lake Still Has a Sharp Edge

6 October 2026 at 16:23
A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state body that protects archaeological heritage in each Italian province) recovered it from Lake Mezzano, a small volcanic lake in Lazio, the region around […]

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