Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

One can imagine that a sword large enough that it required two hands to swing about in battle could get rather tedious to lug around medieval-era ... the 14 th or 15 th century (probably in ...

The famous mythical legend of King Arthur goes that he pulled his magical Excalibur sword from the stone it was forged in. And now archaeologists have somewhat mirrored the fabled tale - after ...

A more than four-foot-long medieval sword was ... a well-preserved medieval sword in Sweden. They think he may have been an influential nobleman in the 15th or 16th century. The man’s remains ...

The toys, DVDs, replica swords ... cadence of medieval art — the flatness, the stylized vegetation and big blocks of color that characterized French illumination from the 15th century.

No one knows how medieval knights really fought ... trained under the shadowy grandmaster Johannes Lichtenauer in the 15th Century. Though details about the almost-legendary figure himself ...

Researchers suspect the 1.90m (6ft 3in) tall man may have been a nobleman who died around 15th or early 16th ... Turkey Finding swords in medieval graves is very rare, indicating that people ...

But the point here is that the Middle Ages were, in fact, far richer than the Medieval-like settings of many swords and sorcery ... Eventually, the late 15th century would give rise to the Spanish ...

There are also duels with polearms, swords and shields ... just steps from the 15th century Belmonte Castle in Belmonte, Spain, combatants decked out in real armor and medieval weapons partook ...