Sensational discovery: 3,000 years old Hungarian sword found in a US museum
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Nobody knew that a Chicago museum has been exhibiting a more than 3,000-year-old sword found in Hungary for decades. Hungarian archaeologists contributed to the sensational discovery. Soon the sword will be transported to Canada, but there is no news about a possible Budapest acquisition.
Some Hungarian archaeologists proved weeks ago that a sword exhibited by Chicago’s Field Museum is not a cheap replica but an original artifact made thousands of years ago in the Carpathian Basin. The museum obtained the sword almost a hundred years ago. Edgar Lopez, the institution’s PR chief, told Blikk that the blade was found in the Danube in Budapest in the 1930s. They thought then that it was only a copy. Now archaeologists discovered it was a Bronze Age original.
János Gábor Tarbay, an archaeologist at the Hungarian National Museum, contributed to the sensational discovery. He told Blikk that the first publication about the sword appeared in 1942. He is specialised in arms, so he emailed the museum requesting permission to inspect. “We learned from our American colleagues that it was only a replica. Despite that, I was curious”, Mr Tarbay highlighted.
A sword found in Hungary*
3000 years ago Hungary did not exist, neither in the steppes of Asia nor in Europe, therefore the sword is not Hungarian, and this is regardless of where it was discovered and to whom it might have belonged.