An ancient chieftain gathered ... Archaeologists unearthed “close to 200 weapons,” a “very rare” chainmail shirt and other items from the Iron Age. Photos show a few of the half-buried ...

A pair of pedestrians recently stumbled across an ancient deadly weapon in a peaceful and most unlikely location: a beach in Poland. The artifact, a 2,500-year-old dagger, was found on March 30.

By 500 BC iron had replaced bronze as the usual metal for making tools and weapons. Blacksmiths produced iron using charcoal-fired shaft furnaces. Iron ore was smelted to produce a 'bloom' (see ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial ... instrument to ward off evil, not a weapon, due to its large size.