The sword was recovered from one of 12 “beautifully ... The dig is part of a larger project investigating a significant migration period that may have introduced new genetic influences to ...

A massive seven-foot-long iron sword has been found in a burial mound ... thought to have been built in the 4th century during the Kofun period, which lasted from A.D. 300 to 710.

the early medieval “Migration Period” and the Viking Age. The new method of measuring DNA changes allowed researchers from the Francis Crick Institute in the US to differentiate even ...