Swords are some of the most interesting and continually chivalrous weapons ever made. That’s why even today in movies the bad guy will often wield a sword rather than a gun to make the action that more intimate and “sexy.” But how were ancient swords originally created?
The sword is the perennial symbol of empires, knighthood, chivalry and fantasy. But it's also one of the world's most ancient technologies, connected with breakthroughs in metallurgy that would change the world. There are even some types of ancient swords so strong that modern science still can't determine how they were made.
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Basically, the sword was made by twisting two different metals together (one metal was stronger than the other).