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 ...

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 ...

The process of etching is so simple, it essentially hasn’t changed since the process involved the decoration of armor ... in the late 15th century and moving into the early 16th century.