Researchers have concluded that this 1,000-year-old sword belonged to a warrior of the Islamic Al-Andalus kingdom that ruled Spain between the 8th and 11t...

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The four-foot sword likely belonged to a crusading knight trying to take back the Holy Land in the 12th century.

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