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 ...

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

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 ...