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No one knows how medieval knights really fought. One day, in the mid-12th Century, an unremarkable monk sat down in St Edmund's Abbey, Suffolk, and set pen to parchment. He was chronicling the ...
Hear ye, hear ye: Medieval art that inspired ‘Game of Thrones’ and more at the Getty Frontispiece, title page (1893). Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris for the Kelmscott Press Woodcut ...
A remarkable discovery has been made in the Netherlands—a medieval sword, dating back over a thousand years, was uncovered during a routine dredging operation. This extraordinary find offers a ...
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 Sword is part of the Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy exhibition; which is on view at the British Library until September 1. Related stories: Child Finds 3,000-Year-Old Sword in Chinese River ...
A 1,000-year-old medieval weapon was unearthed by unknowing construction workers, Ancient Origins reported. Workers dredging the Korte Linschoten River in Utrecht, Netherlands, discovered a ...
Earle drew heavily from medieval influences for the backgrounds, many of which have been lauded by modern animators and art critics but were bemoaned as “too busy” by some of Earle’s colleagues.
A medieval sword defied the elements for 1,000 years, preserved in riverbed clay, until it was recently discovered by a construction crew along the Korte Linschoten River in the Netherlands.After ...
Art World A Doctoral Student Just Discovered a Tiny 5,000-Year-Old Sword—One of the Oldest Weapons in the World—in an Italian Monastery. The 5,000-year-old weapon, which hails from the Bronze ...