Iconographic motifs help historians and archaeologists reconstruct the weaponry from the ancient period. One of such examples is the motif of the Egyptian pharaoh smiting enemies with a mace. This ...

One of the rarest finds at Løsning was the 1,500-year-old chainmail shirt. “Only a very small number of chainmail shirts from ...

At times, some ancient weapons were seen as mystical items, endowed with supernatural properties. Maces were closely associated with the earliest Egyptian rulers. They could be used to crush an ...

Today Russian-made weapons account for about a third of all the Egyptian military hardware, the general said. "We have been dealing with them [the Russian weapons] for decades and their specifics ...

This is not the first time weapons have arrived in Somalia from Egypt. In August, two Egyptian military planes delivered arms and ammunition to Mogadishu. That delivery came after a deal signed ...