This unusual design, researchers say, offered a superior grip and wielding abilities, so effective it could even pierce armor ... 16th and 17th-century earthenware, and even the basement of ...

A medieval-studies major, Mr. Davis wrote his final paper on 15th-century German armor and built a 75-pound steel suit of armor to physically illustrate it. He modeled the 20-piece suit after the ...

Archaeologists in Switzerland recently made an unusual discovery while excavating the land around a medieval castle near the German ... century, but finding one that dates back further than the ...

Archaeologists have found a unique weapons chest in a sunken 15th-century ship off the coast ... in the Blekinge archipelago with a hundred German mercenaries onboard. While underwater analysis ...

A council worker who is a champion jouster on her days off is set to scale a 3,000ft mountain dressed in her full replica 15th century armour. Emma Pearn will trek up Pen y Fan in the Brecon ...

Underwater archaeologists in Sweden have determined that a chest in the wreck of a 15th-century ... of German-speaking mercenaries on the ship when it sank; and a shirt of chain-mail armor ...

Around the dawn of the 16th century, a German artist known for his talent at etching motifs on to arms and armour came up with ... took up the technique in the early years was the vastly ...

Archaeologists in Switzerland recently made an unusual discovery while excavating the land around a medieval castle near the German border ... A 14th-century gauntlet of armor was discovered ...