In 1930, a sword styled after a Hungarian Bronze Age weapon was found in the Danube River, which flows through Budapest.. At that time, scientists decided that it was a fake, since then the sword has been in the Field Museum in Chicago marked " But now a Hungarian archaeologist who traveled to the US ahead of an exhibition dedicated to ancient European kings has taken a look at the sword and claims it is genuine, Science Alert reports..

“We brought it in, he looked at it, 20 seconds passed, and he said, ‘This is not a copy,’” said William Parkinson, curator of anthropology at the Fields Museum..

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But Parkinson was not sure of the scientist's assessment, so he decided to X-ray the sword.. It would reveal whether it was indeed forged from a combination of tin and copper found in other Bronze Age weapons from the same region.. And it turned out that the composition of the sword corresponds to the composition of other artifacts.

“Usually this story goes the other way around.. What we think is original turns out to be a fake,” said Parkinson..

Scholars now believe that the sword was thrown into the waters of the Danube between 1080 and 900 BC.. This was done for ritual purposes, perhaps to commemorate the end of a battle or the death of a loved one, as was customary in other European cultures of the time..

Earlier, archaeologists discovered in Egypt the burial of an eight-year-old child who was buried along with 142 dogs.. The discovery was made in Cairo and is dated between the first century BC and the first century AD..