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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The rare cache of weapons was found in the En Gedi Nature Reserve, preserved in wooden and leather scabbards, according to a press statement from the Israel Antiquities Authority published Wednesday.

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 ...

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 ...