Bronze Age metalworkers from what’s now Italy must have been really good at their craft. Either that, or nature decided to spare their work from the wear and tear of time—as demonstrated by a rare underwater discovery of a still-sharp sword.

In a recent announcement , Italy’s Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Province of Viterbo and Southern Etruria shared details from its latest archaeological campaigns at Lake Mezzano, a volcanic crater lake in central Italy. The team, led by the organization’s Underwater Archaeology Service in partnership with the Carabinieri Underwater Unit of Rome, recovered a variety of artifacts from the bottom of the lake, such as axes, arrowheads, daggers, spearheads, pins, and a razor.…