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Calling all codebreakers. The British Library has appealed to members of the public to help decipher an inscription found on an 800-year-old sword which has left experts stumped. The double-edged ...

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 gold and garnet pyramid mount found in Norfolk, England Norfolk County Council under CC BY-SA 4.0 In April, amateur metal detectorist Jamie Harcourt unearthed a gold and garnet sword pyramid—a ...

A sword on display at the British Library has an 800-year-old mystery engraved on its blade. Dating back to between 1250 and 1330 AD, the sword was discovered in the east of England, in the River ...

In March of last year, during dredging work in the Korte Linschoten River in the Dutch province of Utrecht, a medieval sword dated between 1050 and 1150 was found in an exceptional state of ...

Szczepan Skibicki of the Military Museum of Białystok in Poland made the discovery in August 2022 S. Skibicki/ Szczepan Skibicki of the Military Museum of Białystok in Poland found a sword during a ...

In a real-life Bosnian version of the Arthurian legend, a rare medieval sword has been found plunged into solid rock at the bottom of a river in Bosnia, thrilling historians and romantics alike. Vrbas ...

A sword was a status symbol in the Middle Ages, toted around both on and off the battlefield and frequently interred with its owner as a precious grave good. So it came as something of a surprise when ...

The remarkably well-preserved sword dates to the Late Middle Ages, in an archaeological find that's metal as hell. Reading time 2 minutes When a group of amateur treasure seekers set out on an ...

Tasmanian mother of seven Rebecca Wealands is helping spearhead a resurgence of medieval martial arts to improve people's fitness and self-defence. While most involved in the historic sport in ...

If the legend of King Arthur and Excalibur is anything to go by, anyone who successfully extracts a sword in a stone will be treated like royalty. The fable doesn’t say anything about the reward one ...