Thursday, 7 May 2009

Interesting Facts And Information About Swords


A sword is a weapon consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved, pointed blade having one or two cutting edges and set into a hilt. The development of the sword was not possible until ancient civilizations discovered how to mine and work metal. Thus, the first swords were probably made of the oldest worked metal, pure copper.

Interesting Facts And Information About Swords.

(thanks Nicholas)

2 comment(s):

Betsy said...

there are swords which are made of wood and volcanic glass(obsidian), however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuahuitl

krishna kashyap av said...

Worth reading about
swords.
They have been very useful
since they were invented.
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