Not fake but rather breaking news. Bavarian State Office for the Care of Monuments official press release was yesterday, the 14th: https://www.blfd.bayern.de/mam/blfd/presse/pi_bronzezeitlich...

But what a beautiful sword!

It is! Why is the hilt at the end instead of the end of the blade?

With the caveat that I'm not an expert, that's the pommel (hilt is the entire handle) and it is at the bottom to prevent the sword from slipping out of your hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilt

Heh, you're right on both counts; thanks! Looks like the pommel at the end acts as a counterweight for heavy swords.

Yeah, think about how leverage works, those things really suck to swing around and manipulate if you just bang them out without consideration for balance. Especially the larger ones...

Glad to be wrong!

Was all over the news in Germany today: https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article245860994/Archaeologie... https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/3000-jahre... https://www.schwaebische.de/regional/ostalb/archaeologen-fin...

> Alle Artikel sind aus der Originalquelle übersetzt. Wir betreiben einen Übersetzungsdienst, um Englischsprachigen in Deutschland zu helfen, zu verstehen, was in ganz Deutschland passiert.

All articles are translated from the original source. We run a translation service to help English speakers in Germany understand what's happening across Germany.

But yeah, it has strong freebooting energy.

>But yeah, it has strong freebooting energy.

The FAZ and Zeit articles are just copy pasted from the dpa, which is why they are identical. I am sure they payed for them, but I can't say I am particularly sorry for them.

Welt was the one article I saw which included some more info and a few more pictures.

The link is a translation. At the bottom is a source link: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/3000-jahre...

That's the website of the Frankfurter Algemeine, which (as far as I know) is a reputable German newspaper.