Late last month, an excavator operator was working at a peat bog in the Polish municipality of Mircze when he accidentally stumbled upon this glorious specimen of 14th century craftsmanship. The ...

MADRID (Reuters) - For the first time, two women are now free to whack each other with swords until one of them falls down in internationally sanctioned competition. This is progress. The first such ...

On Chicago’s North Side, along a frontage road beside a commuter rail line, sits a long row of old industrial buildings bounded by brownstone houses. Down a tiny alley, behind a little door, is a ...

Archaeologists excavating a town square in Halmstad found an at least 500-year-old grave with a huge, well-preserved weapon, photos show. Screengrab from the Cultural Environment of Halland's Facebook ...

"As a kid, I always had a fear of being stabbed,” said Carl Chiang. “Maybe in a past life, someone stabbed me.” Chiang is holding a steel sword as tall as a 6-year-old. The neuroscientist spends his ...