{"id":1810106,"date":"2023-01-18T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810106"},"modified":"2023-01-18T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:04:39","slug":"they-thought-their-bronze-age-sword-was-a-replica-its-the-real-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-thought-their-bronze-age-sword-was-a-replica-its-the-real-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"They Thought Their Bronze Age Sword Was A Replica. It\u2019s The Real Deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthey-thought-their-bronze-age-sword-was-a-replica-its-the-real-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Chicago Field Museum purchased a bronze-age sword from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hungary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hungarian<\/a> In the 1930s, National Museum believed it was a reproduction. Nearly 100 years later, an archeologist from the Hungarian Museum claims that there was an error. The Field Museum. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fieldmuseum\/posts\/pfbid03r6s7z591Pp7qf6uYRndu2CgMQPk7LMgvZrGtTTkdA8u1CSGNR2udX7KXSPzznR2l?__cft__[0]=AZW00ZWYW1Mp4QKI2yQHSyo-1Ut1usoI9CcX7r5tqG4runtXmoZlTMyFY4mSFTkMPcjgwMrBl3I8JQeMtKNCzGFBpFQySwVCD8bWKtHDVzwAjXSTZgxWynNO_vH-66GDIR7TZaBCU6rLOTlfcTYTZ04KbSTBSe05gINC8DQpw329_DL1OAk7Ortz6V7rPX--2BQ&#038;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-foot-long \u201creplica\u201d Actually, the sword is more than three thousand years old. The sword was found at the bottom the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, which is the second-longest river in Europe. During a Chicago museum visit, the Hungarian archeologist discovered the truth about the sword.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I pull it out and he said after half a minute, this isn\u2019t a replica, this is a real sword,\u201d Bill Parkinson is the Chicago Field Museum&#8217;s curator of Anthropology.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/3500-year-old-bronze-age-sword-discovered-chicago-field-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis is a real 3,000-year-old sword that was thrown into the Danube River at the end of the Bronze Age. And usually it goes the other way. It\u2019s seldom that you\u2019ve got something in your collection that said in the collection records for 100 years, \u2018this is a replica,\u2019 that you find out that no, it\u2019s actually the real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there was a clerical error when it got here,\u201d Parkinson <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/entertainment-and-culture\/2023\/1\/17\/23559126\/field-museum-first-kings-of-europe-exhibit-sword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>. \u201cSomeone just wrote it down wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was discovered in Budapest&#8217;s Danube River more than 100 years ago, and stored at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieldMuseum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FieldMuseum<\/a> Since then. It was called a &#8220;replica&#8221; But it turned out that the sword was a genuine 3500-year-old Bronze Age sword. Today&#8217;s update <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBBMNewsradio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WBBMNewsradio<\/a>The story behind the museum\u2019s latest display.\u2694\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UBuOUjLRda\">pic.twitter.com\/UBuOUjLRda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lisa Fielding (@Lisa_Fielding) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lisa_Fielding\/status\/1615429804601270279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To confirm that the sword was actually from the Bronze Age, researchers compared the chemical makeup of the museum\u2019s artifact with known swords from the Bronze Age using an X-Ray fluorescent detector, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/wbbm780\/news\/local\/bronze-age-sword-at-field-museum-dates-back-3-500-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WBBM NewsRadio<\/a>. Testing revealed that the two makeups of copper, tin and bronze were almost identical.<\/p>\n<p>The Bronze Age lasted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/pre-history\/bronze-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approximately<\/a> From 3300 BC to 1200 BC throwing swords into rivers was a common way to celebrate treaties. <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/entertainment-and-culture\/2023\/1\/17\/23559126\/field-museum-first-kings-of-europe-exhibit-sword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parkinson says<\/a>. This tradition explains why swords dating from the Bronze Age often end up at the bottom of rivers. According to the Bronze Age, metal weapons and tools replaced stone. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/pre-history\/bronze-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made while preparing for The museum\u2019s upcoming exhibit called \u201cThe First Kings Of Europe.\u201d The sword is now on display in the Field Museum\u2019s Stanley Hall and will be included in the new exhibit, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/field-museum-sword-is-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting their journey 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic Period and ending 2,500 years ago in the world of Iron Age kings, visitors will encounter archaeological finds that have never been shown in North America,\u201d the museum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldmuseum.org\/traveling-exhibitions\/first-kings-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> This is the main focus of the exhibit. It will also feature weapons, tools and jewelry. \u201ctell the story of how individuals gained power and influence by amassing wealth and controlling trade, technology, rituals, and warfare.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Field Museum bought a bronze age sword from the Hungarian National Museum in the 1930s thinking it was a replica. Now, nearly 100 years later, an archeologist for the Hungarian museum says there must have been an error at some point, the Field Museum announced Tuesday. The 3-foot-long \u201creplica\u201d sword is actually 3,000 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1810109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8808,15544,6202,3715,6550,5001,15545,15543,6195],"class_list":["post-1810106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-age","tag-bronze","tag-daily","tag-deal","tag-its","tag-real","tag-replica","tag-sword","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}