Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a medieval knight, buried under a shuttered ice cream parlor in the Polish city ...

Fernbank Museum recently placed on display a collection of more than 120 pieces of vintage medieval armor and weaponry from Frederick Stibbert, an Italian-born 19th-century arts collector and ...

A 14th-century gauntlet of armor was discovered recently by archaeologists in ... Gauntlets were armored gloves typically used by European soldiers and knights beginning in the 11th century, ...

Full metal jacket A knight’s plate armor consisted of riveted sections, which offered greater freedom of movement than rigid armor. It was widely used in 14th-century combat. Warpedgalerie/Alamy/ACI ...

About a foot under the tombstone, crews discovered the remains of a coffin holding a full skeleton. Aleksandra Pudlo from the ...

The centuries-old complete skeleton of a medieval knight was found under the former site of a famous ice cream shop in Poland ...

Once upon a time — the 11th through 14th centuries, to be exact — in a land far, far away — well, OK, Europe — the suit of armor was a […] Skip to content All Sections ...

It’s common to find, in the blank spaces of 13th- and 14th-century English texts, sketches and notes from medieval readers. And scattered through this marginalia is an oddly recurring scene: a ...

They protected a person's hands and wrists and were invented in the 14th century, which was when European knights and soldiers began transitioning from the use of chain mail to plate armor.

Visitors to Canterbury Cathedral can view the effigy of a 14th-century knight in full armor laid out on top of a marble tomb. It's the tomb of Edward of Woodstock, colloquially known as the Black ...