A 6-year-old boy named Henrik spotted a well-preserved Viking Age sword in a Norwegian field, a rare find officials say ...

The sword is the perennial symbol of empires, knighthood, chivalry and fantasy. But it’s also one of the world’s most ancient technologies, connected with breakthroughs in metallurgy that would change ...

Have you held the sword? Have you felt its weight? Have you felt how sharp and strong the blade is? A deadly weapon and symbol of power -- jewellery for a man, with 'magical properties'. The sword ...

To borrow a famous line, the problem with most people trying to understanding the true nature of historical sword combat is not that they’re ignorant — it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. The sword of 1700s Indian ruler Tipu ...

Fantastic as the best of the best video games that put a gun in your hand, spin you around, and point you at an enemy may be, it’s rarely as viscerally satisfying as melee combat. Of course, often ...

Forged in Fire this week on History sees the finalists having to recreate the sacred but deadly talwar sword. Here we look back at the history of the blade and it’s significance. The talwar, which ...

Halo’s Energy Sword is about as far as I’m pushing it in terms of what classifies as a sword but seeing as it does, in fact, feature the ‘s’ word in its very title, the two pronged fork that you grip ...