To be a samurai meant position and prestige, but it could all be taken away in an instant, plunging the once-proud warrior ...

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 ...

The sword, which measures just under 3.2 feet ... All that’s known is that they are Medieval in origin, though that’s vague, as the Middle Ages lasted roughly 1,000 years, from the fifth ...

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 Poland. As such, one could also understand some ...