If women need weapons in medieval settings they usually pick the bow and arrow or rapier, but are these weapons really suited ...

Modern people often think of the Middle Ages as an unsophisticated period, when science and technology were almost unheard of ...

For more than three decades, it was thought to be a relic of the Roman era. New research, however, has shown it to be a key ...

Archaeologists recently retrieved early medieval weapons from a lake in Poland — relics believed to be connected to the country’s first rulers. The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica announced the ...

A recent study led by Dr. Balázs Tihanyi and his colleagues, published in PLOS ONE, has led to the positive identification of the first-known female burial with weapons in the 10th-century Carpathian ...