A BIBLICAL-era bronze sword linked to a powerful ancient Egyptian Pharaoh has been discovered at 3,000-year-old army barracks.
A team of archaeologists digging up the ancient fort discovered the shimmering bronze blade at the Tell Al-Abqain site in Egypt.
The ancient blade featured an ornamental cartouche and the personal emblem used by the Great Pharaoh Ramses II.
The insignia was still visible, despite the layers of rust and grime accumulated over millennia.
The sword of the most powerful Pharaoh of the era had been lost more than 3,000 years ago after it was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.
The bronze-aged weapon was uncovered among the ruins of an ancient military fort in a city just south of Alexandria, which featured barracks for soldiers and storage rooms for food, weapons and other goods.
