Between 1965 and 1966, during an archaeological survey around the capital of the ancient Chinese kingdom of Chu, about fifty burials were discovered and excavated, each accompanied by funerary goods. Among the thousands of recovered objects was an unusual bronze sword, which, thanks to being stored
  • tyler@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    These magnificent qualities did not prevent that in 1994, when the weapon was going to be transported to Singapore for an exhibition, a worker accidentally struck the case and caused a seven-millimeter crack in the sword. Since then, it has been forbidden to take it out of the country, and it has only been moved to transfer it from the National Palace Museum in Taipei, where it was originally held, to the Hubei Provincial Museum.

    Dang that sucks