IT’s a medieval mystery that has researchers stumped: What’s the meaning of the inscription on the blade of this 13th Century sword? The British Library is turning to the public for help.

IT’s a medieval mystery that has researchers stumped: What’s the meaning of the inscription on the blade of this 13th Century sword? The British Library is turning to the public for help.

Archaeologists believe the Linschoten Sword was forged to straddle both worlds.

The iron is barely corroded due to the oxygen-poor environment of the wet soil it was buried in, and traces of the wooden ...

Sword found in 19th-century German cellar is something much older — and from far away. In Berlin, a sword discovered in a cellar turned out to be a Japanese wakizashi from the Edo period.

FRANCE’S “Excalibur” sword has mysteriously vanished after being wedged into rock for 1,300 years. Police are probing the suspected theft of the legendary weapon which was plunged… ...

Mystery as legendary French sword disappears after 1,300 years stuck in rock. ... Medieval myth has it that before it was given to Roland, Charlemagne received Durandal from an angel.

Legend says the Durandal sword had been stuck in a French hillside for nearly 1,300 years. When it went missing in June, an investigation to find France’s Excalibur began.

Mystery as legendary French sword disappears after 1,300 years stuck in rock. ... Medieval myth has it that before it was given to Roland, Charlemagne received Durandal from an angel.