The sword was pulled from the attic decades ago, but a recent ceremonial cleaning revealed it was a priceless heirloom from the 12th century.

Though their meticulously crafted battle armor and elaborate helmets shaped into utterly frightening countenances could fill ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...

Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods—but the team was particularly impressed by the sword, which was covered in intricate decorations Sonja ...

From its tail, too, emerges an iron sword believed to be the Kusanagi no Tsurugi, a blade that is one of the three sacred treasures of the Japanese ... to such aspects as Susanoo’s use of ...

The Phoenix Blade is one of the strongest swords in the game, and in my opinion, it comes out as the first choice when compared with Bloodmoon Twins and the Night Blade. The reason is that once the ...

Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon in February 1891, a Japanese chemist named Jokichi Takamine arrived by train in Peoria, Ill. He was there at the ...