In the southern Arizona desert, a fragment of forgotten history has emerged from the dust: a bronze cannon, silent for nearly ...

Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is ...

Scientists have uncovered a cache of ancient weapons hidden deep inside a cave in the Judean Desert, opening a window to ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

Alfred the Great was once a poster-boy for male gallantry, but he fell out of favour in the last century. Now he is ripe for ...

Nolan’s blockbuster epic will be the cinematic event of 2026. But watch out – Hollywood too often puts Homer to the sword ...

Ancient Greek and Roman warships were equipped with bronze rams to smash and sink enemy vessels – and a team of archaeologists has just recreated one. They plan to test the weapon on replica ...

We are not talking about swords, spears ... s rays onto a series of highly polished bronze or copper plates. Reflecting the hot beams of the sun onto polished metal and focusing them on the attacking ...

Archaeologists have uncovered unusual burial practices during the excavation of around seventy graves belonging to a Roman-era Sarmatian cemetery in ... researchers discovered an approximately ...

Jacek Ukowski and Katarzyna Herdzik, the metal detectorists who discovered the dagger Museum of the History of Kamień Land After a recent storm, two metal detectorists went searching for treasure ...

Replicas are planted here and there (including a tactile station where you can feel up bulbous shards of Roman amphora ... Helmet — a great dulled bronze headpiece with two horn protruding ...

The Stanwick Hoard, uncovered there in 1845 and comprising 140 metal artefacts including a bronze horse head mask ... during the early years of the Roman conquest. They divorced, however, and ...