The metal suits worn by knights during the Middle Ages were originally designed to protect against weapons such as swords. But could medieval armor also stop bullets?

Cool Art Deco style? Check. Huge suited knight looming on the roof? Check. Giant arched hallways? Check. This former museum ...

According to an essay in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, plate armor was first used in Europe in the 13th century and became the mainstream form of protective gear by the 15th century. Next ...

Rare is a videogame that doesn’t feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken ... You’ll get into everything that 15th-century Bohemia has to offer, including but not limited ...

The US Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is the second-generation successor to the iconic Humvee, used by the American military and about a dozen other nations since the last Iraq war to ...

Visitors to the Watt Century Farmhouse Museum in Armour Township will have more viewing space this season. That extra space is a result of Armour Township erecting a 24 x 48-foot building next to ...

With its sumptuous painted miniatures in tempera and ink, gold and silver, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is the most treasured illuminated manuscript of the collections of Château de ...

As such, one could also understand some poor soldier’s decision to dump his 3.2-foot-long, two-handed sword known as a “Zweihänder” in a weapons deposit around the 14 th or 15 th century ...

An internal investigation, whose results were obtained by Bloomberg, detailed how workers at the steel plant operator Evraz North America bypassed mandatory hardness tests and inserted fake results ...

“Armor plate does require 100% hardness testing,” the internal report noted. Still, falsifying data was a “widespread” practice, the company investigation concluded. Four employees ...

which could change modern understandings of the ancient kingdom at a critical time in the 15th century B.C. It also highlights how Egyptology has changed from its origins in the 19th and early ...