Archeology is very often just a tireless sort of discipline, one in which you're digging through layers of mud in a field in Essex somewhere, hoping to find a button or a femur bone that might help you develop a working hypothesis and get some grant money.

Other times you come across a totally sweet sword that you want to swing around like you're frickin' King Arthur himself:

Archaeologists have stumbled upon an extremely rare Bronze Age sword at an ancient burial site in Germany.

The weapon, believed to be 3,000 years old, was dug up in the small town of Nördlingen just last week.

Don't lie: You see this beautiful thing in the mud there...

...and you just want to reach down and pick it up and do one thing, and one thing only, with it:

Just once I'd like to do that! Is that too much to ask?

Experts, meanwhile, think this sword was not a ceremonial creation but was "a real weapon, designed for sharp cuts."

If the sword was indeed from Nördlingen, it may have belonged to the Urns, a tribe "distinguished by their custom of cremation during the late Bronze era."