Where to Find Replicas of Egyptian Swords (for under US$300)…

Unfortunately, if you are looking for modern day replicas of Egyptian swords, you are pretty much out of luck...

Well, almost out of luck anyway.

Despite obvious demand for these replicas, there are only a handful of authentic Egyptian style swords available, and of those, only two within our target budget of US$300...

The Hollywood Factor...

If you google "Egyptian swords" nine times out of ten you'll probably end up looking at the so called "Bast Egyptian Short Sword" by United Cutlery (pictured left).

While this sword looks nice enough I guess, it should go without saying that it is pure Hollywood all the way. I'm not going to say too much more about this one, since being stainless steel with a rat tail tang, it's most definitely a "sword like object" and doesn't have any functional capabilities that redeem it whatsoever.

Plus, with an average price tag of US$75 ($99 for the gold plated one) it's pretty expensive wall hanger (though the cheapest place I've seen for them is here at Trueswords.com where the gold plated one sells for the same price that everyone else is selling the stainless steel one for) - so let's just skip this one for now and take a moment to define what we should be looking for in a half decent reproduction...

What constitutes an authentic Egyptian sword...?

According to the archeological record, the Egyptians did not actually use swords very much at all - at least not for military purposes (though longish daggers/shortish swords were fairly common in civilian and political life).

However, the major exception to this rule were the Egyptian swords known as the Khopesh - the cruelly curved sickle sword adopted from the Canaanites, which was used to execute en-masse their enemies, as an infantry weapon and also as a symbol of the authority of their nobles.

While they weren't easy to find, I've managed to track down a couple of rare fully functional replicas from Deepeeka.

Deepeeka Khopesh

As far as fully functional Egyptian swords go, the above two Khopesh by Deepeeka of India are about all that there is in our price range.

Of these two swords, the Black Version (pictured left) is the most ornate and authentic.

Featuring a wooden handle with brass accents, and a brass embossed serpent on the fuller, this unsharpened 5lb sword with a 21" blade is a very imposing and impressive piece, while the slightly larger but plainer version is also very striking, but considerably cheaper.

Both of these Egyptian swords have blades made from high carbon steel and a full tang.

And both are available at the lowest prices online at Kult of Athena with the plain carbon steel version listed here for just US$79.95 and the more ornate Khopesh can be found over here for just US$109.95 (typically at least $149 elsewhere, though they are quite rare and not many places stock them).

P.S. Since quite a few people have asked me about it in the past who are just looking for REALLY cheap Egyptian Swords for display purposes only, there's one for $19.95 HERE at Kult of Athena. It's not amazing looking, and doesn't even come close to any of the others shown here so far, but it's ok for an ornamental Khopesh style sword...