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 ...

Historian and host of the Gone Medieval podcast Matt Lewis ranks the most famous weapons from the medieval period. From the humble dagger to a samurai sword, Matt scores each weapon on usability, ...

A team of underwater archaeologists recovered four well-preserved medieval spears from the bottom of a Polish lake that has already provided a bounty of ancient weapons. Of the newly discovered spears ...

Carnegie-Schadde Memorial Public Library, 230 Fourth Ave., Baraboo, will host The Woodlands, a Historical European Martial Arts group based out of Madison, at 6:30 p.m. today in the library auditorium ...