A 14th-century gauntlet of armor was discovered recently by archaeologists in Switzerland. Canton of Zurich Construction Department More from CBS News ...

An excavation in Oslo's former harbor has yielded the remains of a rare iron gauntlet, likely lost by a medieval knight in the 14th century. Archaeologists with the Norwegian Institute for ...

An iron gauntlet, used for protection in combat during the 14th century, was found during excavations in Oslo. The find is one of many, including several battle weapons, that have been discovered.

When the 14th-century Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio published The Decameron, a collection of short stories about an outbreak of bubonic plague in Florence, Italy, he spared no detail in his ...