On the one hand, this trend has sped up Poland’s efforts to assume a leading role in NATO amidst the US’ planned “Pivot (back ...

Poland during that time was largely inhabited by a number of Slavic tribes, though there was an invasion by Teutonic Knights in the fifteenth century. As Archaeology News reported, the sword’s ...

Poland and Lithuania banded together against ... according to Britannica. The axes and sword, therefore, could have been used against the knights — or on their behalf. The weapons may have ...

per a translation by Notes From Poland’s Alicja Ptak. Amateur archaeologists found the sword while searching for World War II-era artifacts. Inventum Association “No one can quite say how or ...

A pair of metal detectorists bundled up and headed into a snowy forest in Poland. They hoped to find some artifacts from World War II — yet stumbled upon a much older and rarer weapon.

Mariusz Włudarz, a colleague of the finders and spokesperson for the Inventum Association, told Science in Poland that this is the first time a spatha sword has been found in the area.