Historic chess pieces made from walrus ivory and sperm whale teeth can now be viewed from a very different angle after going on display at ...

Historic chess pieces made from walrus ivory and sperm whale teeth can now be viewed from a very different angle after going on display at the National Museum for Scotland. The famous Lewis chess ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...

The experiments creating the same shield shape but without the laths confirmed their importance in stopping the bark curling back upon itself towards its original curvature as it dried. Initially the ...

An extremely rare medieval gold Rhenish coin has been unearthed ... It features a heraldic shield representing the archbishopric of Trier. Surrounding the shield is the inscription ‘MOnETA ...

Please verify your email address. Medieval city-builders offer a unique starting-from-scratch experience. The best of these games allow players to create realistic villages on natural landscapes.

Generally known as a shaped watch, an industry category describing any timepiece that is not round, the Mirage takes its cues from the design of its hand-wound mechanical movement, visible through ...

IN THE EARLY hours of October 15th two American cargo planes landed at an air-force base in the Negev Desert. Mobile surface-to-air missile launchers trundled off the ramp and were soon on their ...

The US is racing to help close gaps in Israel’s protective shield, announcing on Sunday the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) antimissile battery, ahead of an expected ...

(Angi Betran/Army) If a collection of soldiers and scientists are successful, troops may never again have to run, on foot, into a breach, swinging a grappling hook in a scene resembling medieval ...