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title: Eastern Zhou Swords
author: The British Museum
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7490/eastern-zhou-swords/
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updated: 1970-01-01
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# Eastern Zhou Swords
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## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/7490.jpg)
## Image Caption
A pair of [bronze](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/bronze/) swords from the Eastern [Zhou dynasty](https://www.worldhistory.org/Zhou_Dynasty/), [China](https://www.worldhistory.org/china/), 5th-3rd century BCE. (British Museum, London)
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Museum, T. B. (2017, October 25). Eastern Zhou Swords. *World History Encyclopedia*.
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