Ancient iron hoard for 500 swords found in river

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWorkers digging gravel out of a river in Upper Austria pulled up more than five hundred ancient iron bars, the New York Post reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFive hundred bars. How much does that weigh?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorJust over a metric ton, and researchers say it could have been forged into roughly five hundred swords. I'm already a little emotional.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThey date to the third or second century B.C. Somebody packed a boat with iron and it just never arrived.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorResearchers say a shipwreck is the most plausible explanation, though no remains of a vessel were found.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the cargo made it and the boat stepped back.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe workers spotted it while pulling it up with an excavator, and they reported it to the Federal Monuments Office in twenty nineteen. That's the part that gets me.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe lead researcher called it a minor miracle that it didn't end up at scrap dealers. I'm tearing up, Kenji. Look at me.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTissue's off camera.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwo thousand years in transit, and the first person to open the package was a gravel crew.