Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus ...

With that in mind, today, we’re looking at ancient weapons well ahead of the curve. Sieges are a common part of warfare. Eventually, most superior forces will encircle an encampment or ...

Archaeologists in Denmark uncovered dozens of 1,500-year-old weapons, a rare chainmail shirt and other artifacts buried by an ancient chief. Photo from the Vejle Museums An ancient chieftain ...

Ancient snail shells helped archeologists re-evaluate the age of the oldest known wooden weapons collection: a site in Lower Saxony, Germany, famous for its arsenal of hunting equipment ...

The ancient weapons include notched ends for the darts of a spear thrower, or atlatl; the foreshafts of darts that had stone tips; and the foreshafts of darts that were probably poisoned.

Hundreds of weapons from the Roman era have been unearthed ... Found beneath the ground in Lyon's Clos de la Visitation park, the ancient treasure trove includes arrowheads, pieces of weaponry ...

Languages: English, Spanish A cache of ancient weapons from the Roman period has been discovered hidden in a remote cave in Israel. The cache includes four exceptionally well-preserved Roman ...

Humans may have had access to long-ranged weapons 31,000 years ago. according to researchers who performed a ballistic analysis on a collection of ancient flint projectile heads. Humanity’s ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than ... The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known hunting weapons. They were discovered in a coal mine over two decades ...

Ancient snail shells helped archeologists re-evaluate the age of the oldest known wooden weapons collection: a site in Lower Saxony, Germany, famous for its arsenal of hunting equipment, including ...