Despite its anatomical look, the hilt likely helped to batter an opponent's armor during combat. Nearly eight years of excavation work at a medieval fortress in Gothenburg, Sweden has yielded a number ...

A strange dagger with testicle-shaped orbs unearthed at a medieval Swedish fortress likely offered additional force for its wielder to damage opponents’ armour, archaeologists say. Archaeological ...

A discovery of a testicle-shaped dagger at an ancient fortress was likely a bold statement and a useful weapon. Archaeologists working at the Gullberg fortress in Sweden uncovered a trove of weapons, ...

Traces of four medieval structures dating from the 14th to 17th centuries were discovered next to a highway near Bothwell in Scotland, where the Netherton Cross (a 10th century stone cross) once stood ...

It’s not every day you get to see medieval wrestling and sword fights on campus. Backswords, daggers, longswords, messers, polearms, rapiers, sickles, along with traditional medieval attire and food, ...