I noticed that Thomas Chen's website has a picture showing some Han dynasty 2-handed steel swords here:

http://thomaschen.freewebspace.com/photo.html

Does anyone know some exact specifications of typical 2handed steel swords of the period, like weight and length? It would be interesting to compare these with European longswords of the 15th century...

Thanks!

Sorry, i'm not good at English very well , so i cannot translate for U. En.....Are U good at Chinese?
http://bbs.hl365.net/viewthread.php?tid=386612
''山西省古刀剑保护协会对汉代环首刀之研磨与研究"

and a picture

It is a real antique

Hello LaoZhou,

In my opinion, the best person to ask on ancient swords like this would be our member Kenneth. However, I have not seen him on for a while...but you can drop him a PM and see if he picks up. He's very knowledgeable in this kind of thing.