Boy, 11, finds 3,000-year-old sword in Chinese river
QMI Agency
First posted: Monday, September 08, 2014 02:02 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, September 08, 2014 02:33 PM EDT
An 11-year-old boy discovered a 3,000-year-old sword while washing his hands in a river in China.
Yang Junxi discovered the 26 cm-long rusty sword in the Laozhoulin River in China's Jiangsu Province on July 2, the Chinese news wire Xinhua reported.
Word got around about the sword and people began visiting the family's home to see it.
The boy's father sent it to relics experts on Sept. 3. They dated the sword to the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
"The short sword seems a status symbol of a civil official. It has both decorative and practical functions, but is not in the shape of sword for military officers," Lyu Zhiwei of the Gaoyou Cultural Relics Bureau told the newswire. "Made in a time of relatively low productivity, its owner would have been an able man with the qualification to have such an artifact."
The boy and his father have been given a reward for turning the sword over.
An 11-year-old boy discovered a 3,000-year-old sword while washing his hands in a river in Jiangsu Province, China. (Google Maps)
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QMI Agency
First posted: Monday, September 08, 2014 02:02 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, September 08, 2014 02:33 PM EDT
An 11-year-old boy discovered a 3,000-year-old sword while washing his hands in a river in China.
Yang Junxi discovered the 26 cm-long rusty sword in the Laozhoulin River in China's Jiangsu Province on July 2, the Chinese news wire Xinhua reported.
Word got around about the sword and people began visiting the family's home to see it.
The boy's father sent it to relics experts on Sept. 3. They dated the sword to the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
"The short sword seems a status symbol of a civil official. It has both decorative and practical functions, but is not in the shape of sword for military officers," Lyu Zhiwei of the Gaoyou Cultural Relics Bureau told the newswire. "Made in a time of relatively low productivity, its owner would have been an able man with the qualification to have such an artifact."
The boy and his father have been given a reward for turning the sword over.
An 11-year-old boy discovered a 3,000-year-old sword while washing his hands in a river in Jiangsu Province, China. (Google Maps)
Boy, 11, finds 3,000-year-old sword in Chinese river | Weird | News | Toronto Su