A man who was coming at a police officer with a medieval-type sword raised above his head was shot by the officer Wednesday afternoon.Covington, Ga., police said the man. was walking in and out of ...

Russia was the first country in Europe after Charlemagne’s medieval empire to set up the organized production of blades. Russian chronicles are heavy with references to swords. Russian Princes’ men-at ...

No one knows how medieval knights really fought. One day, in the mid-12th Century, an unremarkable monk sat down in St Edmund's Abbey, Suffolk, and set pen to parchment. He was chronicling the ...

In a real-life Bosnian version of the Arthurian legend, a rare medieval sword has been found plunged into solid rock at the bottom of a river in Bosnia, thrilling historians and romantics alike. Vrbas ...

A rusty 600-year-old sword used by Highlander mercenaries has sold for a whopping £30,000. The medieval weapon, believed to date from the 15th or 16th Century, originated in the Scottish Highlands.

Workers removing silt in Poland’s Vistula river have pulled out a rare 1,000-Year-Old medieval sword in “near perfect” condition. They found the strange oblong metal object earlier this month amid the ...