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The first swords known so far date to ca. the 33rd to 31st centuries BCE, during the Early Bronze Age, and have been founds at Arslantepe by Marcella Frangipane of Sapienza University of Rome. [34] [35] [36] A cache of nine swords and daggers was found; they are cast from an arsenic–copper alloy. [37]
During Islamizaton of the Turks, the kilij became more and more popular in the Islamic armies. When the Seljuk Empire invaded Persia and became the first Turkic Muslim political power in Western Asia, kilij became the dominant sword form. The Iranian (Persian) shamshir was created during the Turkic Seljuk Empire period of Iran/Persia. [6]
Apa-type swords, 17th-century BC The swords found together with the Nebra sky disk, c. 1600 BC. The first weapons that can be described as "swords" date to around 3300 BC. They have been found in Arslantepe, Turkey, are made from arsenical bronze, and are about 60 cm (24 in) lo
The weapons were likely left as a ritual offering, archaeologists said.
3300 BC: The first documented swords. They have been found in Arslantepe, Turkey, are made from arsenical bronze, and are about 60 cm (24 in) long. [147] [148] Some of them are inlaid with silver. [148] 3300 BC: City in Uruk, Sumer, Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). [149]
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A kilij consists of a grooved blade, a hilt, a guard, and a scabbard. The sword of Sultan Mehmed II illustrates its basic form with its slightly curved blade that thickens at the back. During the reigns of the sultans Bayezid II and Suleiman the Magnificent, the kilij attained its classic form, becoming shorter, lighter, and straighter.
The Military Museum said it may exhibit the sword in December. A museum worker who was swimming in a Polish river two years ago discovered a sword dating back as far as the 9th century, officials ...