Archaeologists have pulled a 3,300-year-old sword from a lake in Italy—and it’s still sharp. The bronze weapon was discovered at the bottom of Lake Mezzano, a small volcanic lake in central Italy, roughly 60 miles northwest of Rome.
It’s the third sword discovered in the lake since the 1970s, according to an announcement from Italy’s Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria. Archaeologists think that between 1700 and 1150 B.C.E. the lake was home to a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village, a community lofted above the water on stilts.
