>Claim to be the sword yield by King Goujian of Yue durin

It's probably a fake imo, or at least it's been restored to an extreme degree.

Something like that would've decayed pretty substantially over the past 2 millennia.

>>3231247
Bronze doesn't rust like iron or steel and it hasn't been restored much. It was also carefully packed into a tomb. And it's fucking written on the thing that it's the sword of Goujian and was made by himself for his own use.

It's not in pristine condition either, the further toward the hilt there is more discoloration and the hilt is a bit damaged.

No reason a bronze sword couldn't last that long. I mean, shit, the Chinese had hundreds of sculptures that still retained their paint after millennia because they were so carefully preserved.

>>3231237
>The sword was found sheathed in a wooden scabbard finished in black lacquer. The scabbard had an almost air-tight fit with the sword body. Unsheathing the sword revealed an untarnished blade, despite the tomb being soaked in underground water for over 2,000 years.
Try reading your own links sometime.

>>3231527
>And it's fucking written on the thing that it's the sword of Goujian and was made by himself for his own use.

Precisely the sort of thing a forger would write on a fake artifact.

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this are 5 thousand years old and made from copper. So If kept in an isolated chamber that sword could be the real thing.

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>>3231237
The Sword of Goujian (Traditional Chinese: 越王勾踐劍, Simplified Chinese: 越王勾践剑) is an archaeological artifact of the Spring and Autumn period (771 to 403BC) found in 1965 in Hubei, China. Forged of copper and tin, it is renowned for its unusual sharpness and resistance to tarnish rarely seen in artifacts so old

"It is likely that the chemical composition, along with the almost air-tight scabbard, led to the exceptional state of preservation."

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>>3231593
One intelligent forger that would be considering bird-bug was hard to translate in the 60's.

>>3231237
does that make it legendary or just purple?