Despite its anatomical look, the hilt likely helped to batter an opponent's armor during combat. Nearly eight years of excavation work at a medieval fortress in Gothenburg, Sweden has yielded a number ...

A strange dagger with testicle-shaped orbs unearthed at a medieval Swedish fortress likely offered additional force for its wielder to damage opponents’ armour, archaeologists say. Archaeological ...

At West Helsterton in east Yorkshire, DNA results point to a biological relationships between men buried in close proximity.

Traces of four medieval structures dating from the 14th to 17th centuries were discovered next to a highway near Bothwell in Scotland, where the Netherton Cross (a 10th century stone cross) once stood ...