 You're not going to believe this one, guys. One of the earliest known Bronze Age swords has just been dated to being over 5,000 years old at the monastery island of Saint Lazarus in Italy. The discovery was made accidentally. Wait, do you hear this? The sword has stunningly dated to 5,000 years ago, but little is known about it, only that a wealthy collector sent it there in 1886 with a note attached to it and citing that they were simply ancient archaeological artifacts. A keen eyed PhD student noticed that the sword was not looking like a mere few hundred years old, but an actual fact one of the oldest swords ever discovered that is made from an alloy. First noticed back in 2017 the monastery were displaying this piece as being medieval in origins. It is now known that it is from eastern Turkey where swords were actually invented, astonishing, right? According to the note that accompanied the donation handwritten in Armenian and dating to 1886, the sword was found at Kavak, a settlement near an ancient Greek colony on the Black Sea coast, now Trabzon in eastern Turkey. A two-year detailed study of the artifact, including metallurgical research to verify that both the construction and composition of the sword are similar to those of the ancient swords found in eastern Turkey. This has now been confirmed, and what was a display piece at a monastery in Italy is now one of the oldest bronze age artifacts in existence. It always has been, actually, it is us who are playing catch-up on the past, remember? The study revealed a high concentration of arsenic copper. Combining the very poisonous arsenic with the copper resulted in this type of bronze and thus can be comfortably dated to this period because this was the precursor to combining tan with copper to create the alloy of true bronze as it's known in scientific studies. The style and shape of the sword shows that it comes from a very early development of this construction and twin swords discovered in Turkey that closely resemble this one have been dated to five thousand years old and archaeologists now think swords were invented in that very region and that the sword from the monastery in Italy is now thought to be an early example of this construction. Maybe the oldest, but they seem to be holding their fire on that announcement for now. It is amazing to think that these things are sitting in plain sight, wrongly categorized and even completely misinformed in some cases. It is a positive step however to note that people all over our world are actively seeking answers to the past, correcting the wrongly informed and in this case completely rewriting common understanding in a stunning example of the knowledge we don't possess as opposed to what we think we know. What do you guys think about this one anyway? Comments below and as always, thank you for watching.