A knight in "shining armor" wielding a sword or lance is an iconic medieval image, but more advanced weapons also appeared in ...

The audience howled. This is the world of modern medieval battle, a human demolition derby where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer one another with blunted steel ...

A new study shows that soldiers carrying armor in Medieval times would have been using more than twice the amount of energy had they not been wearing it. This is the first clear experimental ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of a medieval Slavic settlement and associated burial ground in Germany. The centuries-old site was discovered during an excavation in Wettin ...

plate armor that completely encases the wearer's body, is not a medieval phenomenon, but dates from the early modern era." The first fully functioning sets of armor were produced in northern Italy ...

As if flying arrows and burning pitch weren't enough to worry about, medieval knights also had to battle their own armor. A new study that put armor-wearing volunteers on treadmills finds that ...

Archaeologists in Switzerland have unearthed a gauntlet likely worn by a medieval soldier or knight ... was a “completely preserved gauntlet of armor,” according to a Google-translated ...

Game of Thrones has been brought to life in a bizarre contest where people dressed as knights in armour take to a boxing ring to duel with a sword and shield. Medieval MMA is the brainchild of ...

The remains of a medieval Slavic settlement were recently unearthed in Germany, officials said. Photo from the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt ...