It has a special backstory.
The Field Museum had thought it was a convincing replica of a Bronze Age sword.
Turns out, it’s the real thing.
The sword is around 3,000 years old.
The museum acquired the artifact almost a century ago.
It was first discovered in the 1930s in the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary.
It may have ended up there as part of a ritual for the dead.
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Tracing the sword to its rightful place in history was unexpected.
“Usually this story goes the other way round.
What, this old thing?
We just found it in a river.
