Historical Artifacts

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Inscribed Bronze Sword, Zhou China, ~5th Century BCE (lemmynsfw.com)

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This is a bronze sword found in southern Hubei province, China, in 1965. It is inscribed with bird-worm seal script characters reading "King Goujian of Yue made this sword for [his] personal use".

Picture by Wikipedia user Windmemories used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It looks so well preserved it could have been made yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Its Wikipedia article says that its bronze is mixed with some sulfur that prevented it from going green like copper alloys usually do.