The Tomio Maruyama burial mound in Nara, Japan dates to the fourth century and was created for a powerful individual who ...

A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

It turned out to be a 12th-century sword with a cross-guard and a three-sided knob, known as a pommel. The landowner contacted an archeologist at the University of Turku who investigated the site ...

One day, in the mid-12th Century ... blow came with the invention of pistols. In the 18th Century, these new weapons eventually replaced swords as the preferred method of duelling – while ...

Metal detectorists found a large two-handed sword and two axe heads ... was founded in the 12th century and had residences in Palestine, Prussia (in modern-day Poland) and Germany throughout ...