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 ...

When he dons his gleaming metal helmet, he’s Sir Brian De Catton, a 15th-century knight in shining ... the Brotherhood of the Arrow and Sword, a group of medieval reenactors from around New ...

They dug up the heads of two axes and a large-sized sword and brought them to the local medieval museum ... in nature and date to the 14th to 15th centuries, according to the release.

Underneath them were four stranger weapons: long, flat, medieval-looking swords ... but rather 14th- or 15th-century European swords. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the city’s ...

Keith Young and Lisa Stephenson unearthed the stash of 30 medieval coins in the tiny Scottish ... artefacts aren’t necessarily unusual, 15th century hauls are rarely uncovered in Scotland ...

The medieval sword was far more than just man-bling ... It’s a weapon similar to others from the 13th Century, but it does have several strange features. “The blade is unusual as it has ...

Aspiring masters of the blade will soon be able to swap the comfort of their sofas for swords in "a quest for ... of duelling derived from 14th to 15th century handbooks used by swordmasters ...