Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

A young metal detectorist has been told the sword pommel he unearthed a year ago dates back at least 575 years. Lucas and his father Dave, from Newton Aycliffe, went to a dig in North Yorkshire and ...

Sword Art Online's Asuna (Cherami Leigh) was a welcome subversion of the "token girl" fantasy trope when she showed up in the series’ second episode. As a skilled fencer, she proved herself just as ...

In the 1470s, a Flemish scribe left some meticulously drafted pages of an illuminated manuscript out to dry, only to find out the next day that his cat had trod over them, leaving inky paw prints on ...

Hidden in the hills of Tuscany, Italy, there's a real medieval sword embedded in stone — and historians have verified it’s over 900 years old. Some say it inspired the legend of King Arthur’s ...

A remarkable medieval sword with rare symbols was recently put on display in a Dutch museum, over a year after it was found by construction workers unexpectedly. The discovery of the sword was ...

The artifact will soon be put on display to the public. A fisherman in Poland discovered a well-preserved Medieval sword in Warsaw’s Vistula River, opening up questions about what other artifacts ...

A remarkable medieval sword with rare symbols was recently put on display in a Dutch museum, over a year after it was found by construction workers unexpectedly. The discovery of the sword was ...

A remarkable medieval sword with rare symbols was recently put on display in a Dutch museum, over a year after it was found by construction workers unexpectedly. The discovery of the sword was ...

A medieval sword has gone on display at a museum in the Netherlands after its chance discovery during a dredging operation on a river in the center of the country. The sword was found during routine ...

The sword's hilt is made up of a six-and-a-half-inch guard, once-leather grip and nut-shaped pommel. Ruben de Heer In March 2024, construction workers were digging in a river on a Dutch estate when ...