In this video we will make a Viking wootz sword with an amazing pattern on the blade. We smelted this wootz ingot in our furnace in the last video, in which we showed how we make our crucibles for ...
High-tech scans of Viking swords are revealing details of how the weapons were made and how their role changed in Viking society over time. A new analysis of three Viking swords has found that, as ...
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington have worked with the Wallace Collection to analyse the contents of Viking swords – and the results shed new light on trade routes in ...
A sword is probably the last thing you’d expect to find on a hike – especially one that’s more than a millennium old. But that’s what happened to a man in Norway who recently stumbled across a ...
Join Jason Fox and Bruce Crompton in Sky HISTORY’s Battle Treasures as they explore rare military artefacts and the history ...
A construction crew dredging the Vistula River in Włocławek found a 1,000-year-old Viking weapon in the mud, photos show and archaeologists said. Photo from the Provincial Office for the Protection of ...
While dredging a river in Poland, a construction crew accidentally hauled up a medieval weapon. Archaeologists identified the artifact as a rare Viking sword, photos show. Sławomir Mularski and his ...