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 ...

Medieval artists didn’t always have firsthand experience with the animals they painted, and nowhere is that more obvious than in their attempts in history. In manuscripts, animal creatures can be seen ...

Sword Art Online Variant Showdown has generated $6.3 million since November 2022, according to AppMagic estimates. The title went on hiatus in September 2023 and did not return until December 2024.

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 ...

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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 ...