Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," including one that is decorated with tiny swastikas, the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) reports. Both swords were found intact in their scabbards. One of the swords has an ornate, copper-alloy scabbard designed to be worn at the waist. Several polished gems decorate the scabbard's edges, and at least two of the gems have swastika designs. Although swastikas are infamously tied to the Nazi regime and the atrocities of World War II, these ancient swastikas had different connotations. Swastikas were...
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