In the Arthurian legends, King Arthur famously has a special sword named Excalibur. This is one of the constant aspects of the legend, seen in almost every version of the legend over the centuries.

According to Arthurian legend, the great wizard Merlin prophesied that only the true king of England would be able to pull ...

For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.

Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at ...

A lost 800-year-old Merlin and King Arthur manuscript was found in the 16th-century book and studied using advanced imaging ...

Amateur detectorists found a cache of medieval weaponry near the village of Wielka Tymawa in Poland. They discovered a two-handed sword, or rather a hand-and-a-half sword, and two axe heads from ...

Sally: Well, the story is that the sword could only be pulled free from the stone by the true king. Harry: Did that really happen? Fatima: Doesn't seem very likely. Sally: Exactly. So this is what ...