Horses are instinctively wired to run from danger. So how did medieval armies train them to thunder towards enemy lines ...

Amateur detectorists exploring the historic fields near Gietrzwałd, Poland, have unearthed a remarkably rare medieval flail weapon known as a kiścień - only the fourth such artifact ever recorded in ...

Dan Jones and Professor Michael Livingston walk through the battlefield of Shrewsbury, where the future king Henry V took an arrow to the face. The battle took place in 1403, when a rebellion broke ...

In one corner is thirty-seven-year-old Matt Gifford, five foot ten inches, weighing in at 185 pounds. Over his armor, he wears a red brigandine, a cloth garment studded with metal. On the other side ...

Was it the mud? Was it the longbow? Or were French battlefield decisions the real reason they lost? Join medieval historian ...

A historian said lessons must be learned after the site of a medieval battlefield was disturbed during the construction of a HS2 viaduct. Part of the Edgcote battlefield in Northamptonshire has been ...

LUBLIN, Poland (Reuters Life!) - Just like his Medieval counterparts 600 years ago armorer Tomasz Samula has hardly any time to outfit his knights before battle commences. Samula is racing to add the ...

CLAREGALWAY, Ireland (Reuters) - Once the chief fortress of a powerful 15th century family descended from an English knight, the west of Ireland castle of Claregalway went back to its roots on ...

Divers off the coast of Sicily discovered a medieval battle helmet used during Spanish rule on the island. Screengrab of Soprintendenza del Mare's Facebook post Scientific divers off the coast of ...