Archaeological excavations of Bronze Age in Ramsar

Daggers and Dirks

Daggers are known from Europe in the late third to early second millennium BC. A nearly 6-inch bronze dagger from Cyprus may date as far back as 2,500 B.C. These tools had many purposes, the most usual one was for fighting, mostly unarmed or open-hand arms.

 Short, tapered daggers were some of the earliest Bronze Age weapons because they required relatively small amounts of metal for their production.

There are many variations of daggers known today. Some of them had blades a few centimetres long while some had a 20 cm long blade.