The curved steel blades gleamed in the soft gallery lighting, as sharp and vicious-looking as when each was forged hundreds of years ago. The swords were the primary weapons of the samurai, the ...

Ed Root was excited. A past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania, a local group of war-between-the-states history enthusiasts, he had just heard that the man who owned a sword ...

Discovered in near-perfect condition after more than 2,000 years, the Sword of Goujian is one of the most mysterious and awe-inspiring ancient artifacts ever found. Despite centuries underground, it ...

This story first published online at UNC Media Hub. The sound of clashing steel rings out, interrupting an otherwise peaceful evening at Marsh Creek Community Center in Raleigh. People adorned in ...

The sword is the perennial symbol of empires, knighthood, chivalry and fantasy. But it’s also one of the world’s most ancient technologies, connected with breakthroughs in metallurgy that would change ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) When the camera glides over the mist-laden towers and pavilions of Wu and Yue in Jiangnan, when armor flashes cold in the beacon light, when-beneath the setting sun-Shi Chonggui ...