The newly authenticated sword on display. (Field Museum)
If it’s real, it’s probably very, very heavy.
I’m plumb out of shape. I could not brandish, cut or thrust the weapon with effective skill.
Stopping to use my albuterol inhaler would diminish my statement.
now that’s an ‘assault’ weapon.
3,000 years? That’s older than Hungary itself. Certainly a lot older than Budapest.
when I first read the title on a different article source it mentioned Chicago. I was REALLY hoping it was found there... lol
Early Hallstadt culture?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_sword#Europe
I would never have thought that anyone in the Medieval period was making replicas of Bronze Age swords.
Who would be the market for such swords?
Tin: The original strategic mineral.
Sword Mistaken For Replica Is Actually An Ancient 3,000-Year-Old Weapon
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For nearly a century, the sword has sat on display at the Field Museum...
Wow, great analog and intel to start the day, thanks!
It's like the traditions about King David from 3000 years ago -- David the "illegitimate" ginger kid out in the field, tending sheep, relegated to obscurity or worse. Then as it turned out, scrappy lil David slayed a most heinous giant... without even needing a sword. Work smart, not hard.
"Usually this story goes the other way round," Parkinson marveled in a recent press release from the museum. "What we think is an original turns out to be a fake."
This way is a lot more exciting.
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The Field Museum's upcoming exhibition, The First Kings of Europe, is set to open in March 2023.
The King is in the Field. It's an old Jewish teaching from the Alter Rebbe, yet so many are going to be way surprised. Why limit the "month of mercy" to just one month? I think I see the problem there. Next thing you know, it gets reduced down to One Day, if anyone should happen to feel particulary charitable.
In the "windy" city:
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.[4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs,[5][6] and its extensive scientific-specimen and artifact collections.[7]
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The museum is named in honor of its first major benefactor, Marshall Field*, the department-store magnate.
*מרשל פילד
Speaking of which, has anyone seen the Hebrew translation for the inscription on the Liberty Bell ( the 11th star number, Esther, פעמון הדרור = 661 = אסתר, Liberty Bell, located in the place of brotherly love)? Now because "Philadelphia" had been reduced to PHILADA, the translation reflects this as:
פילדה
Which left out "according to" in Philadelphia [פילדלפיה], and suspended the hay [ה] above the field. The page includes "Liberty Bell" transliterated from English: ליברטי בל -- bet-lamed, "bell" being the first and last letters of the Torah (and the whole Tanakh), which in reverse is a [Jewish] heart, as explained in the definitive article from above, from Chabad.
"The bell acquired its distinctive large crack sometime in the early 19th century -- a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835."
Weight 2,080 pounds
Material 70% Copper (nehoshet)
70% of 2080 = 1456 (104 stone)
1456... Sounds like a plan... to rebuild Western Civilization, and beyond..
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Budapest -- the name being a merge of the cities that had been divided by the long river, Buda and Pest.
In the 1930s, a tarnished bronze sword was pulled from the banks of the Danube River that runs through Budapest.
>>>For nearly a century, the sword has sat on display at the Field Museum in Chicago, labeled as a mere copy. But last year, while the museum was preparing for an upcoming exhibit on ancient European kings, a visiting Hungarian archaeologist (whose name has not been publicized) took one look at the sword and declared it authentic.
"We brought it out, he looked at it, and it was 20 seconds and he said, 'It's not a replica'," William Parkinson, the curator of anthropology at the Field Museum, told a local news station.
>>>The newly authenticated sword will be the first artifact for the exhibit that visitors will see as they enter the main hall -- an overlooked imitation no longer.
I see from a map that the museum campus has a fountain, "Man With Fish".
I am thinking it was made by Adam Savage....
Adam Savage’s Assassin’s Sword: Capstone Build
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fWzPgC2wvo
