We often romanticize the Middle Ages, seeing them as a time of chivalry, gallant knights, and castles. Beneath all of this pageantry and myth lies the stark reality of an era defined by brutal warfare ...

Archaeologists recently retrieved early medieval weapons from a lake in Poland — relics believed to be connected to the country's first rulers. The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica announced the ...

TORUŃ, POLAND—According to a statement released by Nicolaus Copernicus University, four medieval spears have been discovered in west-central Poland’s Lake Lednica, where a medieval stronghold once ...

Duncan Sayer would like to thank Dr Andrew Richardson who is a co-director of the east Kent excavation project. The excavation, which I carried out with archaeologist Andrew Richardson, focused on an ...