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Shang or Zhou Dynasty sword found by 11-year-old
Topic Started: Sep 8 2014, 03:21 PM (311 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29108764

A Chinese boy has made the discovery of a lifetime by stumbling across a 3,000-year-old bronze sword in a river in Jiangsu Province.

Eleven-year-old Yang Junxi says he touched the rusty weapon's tip while washing his hands in the Laozhoulin River, in Gaoyou County, the state news agency Xinhua reports. After pulling it out he took it home, where it quickly became a sensation for curious locals, before the family decided to send it to officials for examination. "Some people even offered high prices to buy the sword," Junxi's father Jinhai says. "But I felt it would be illegal to sell the relic."

Archaeologists have dated the 26cm (10in) weapon to either the Shang or Zhou dynasties - the dawn of Chinese civilisation - based on its material, size and shape. Lyu Zhiwei of the Gaoyou Cultural Relics Bureau says that while the sword appears to be of both decorative and practical use, it's form suggests it was the status symbol of a civil official rather than a sword for fighting.

The authorities are now planning a major archaeological dig in the river, once part of a system of ancient waterways that developed into today's Grand Canal. Junxi and his father have been given a reward for handing in the relic.



Seems like there have been a lot of of stories like this lately! I'll be interested to see what else this dig finds, because I imagine there will be plenty of stuff like this hidden across China.
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Mechanized
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This is amazing
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GrieferLord
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ah swords always fun to find and stab people with. hope they got a good amount of money for such a wonderful relic.
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CJ
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I hope so too, but with this being China, I doubt that the reward they got for handing it in was much :( .
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There's so many artifacts from ancient civilizations that normal people find them and throw them away because they take too much room! :P
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