Medieval knights are one of those things where the fiction outweighs the facts. Knights served as a part of the aristocracy for most of Europe, far from popular films’ hallowed heroism or comedic ...

Knights weren’t always clad in heavy plate armor. From the Norman conquests to the wars of the late Middle Ages, this video ...

As if flying arrows and burning pitch weren't enough to worry about, medieval knights also had to battle their own armor. A new study that put armor-wearing volunteers on treadmills finds that wearing ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Crews in Poland found a 12th century church last year before the discovery of a knight buried around the turn from the 13th to the 14th century. The ...

The Red Knight gallops onto the battlefield astride a chestnut horse. Fifty feet away, the Green Knight squares off against him. Lances at the ready, the two horsemen charge each other to the blare of ...

In movies, medieval knights are portrayed as courageous and loyal heroes who will fight to the death without fear or regret. In reality, the lives of knights were filled with a litany of stresses much ...

Kingmakers asks a simple question: What if a guy with a gun and a truck were dropped into Medieval England? The result is something like Dynasty Warriors, but with real-time strategy and simulation ...

The centuries-old complete skeleton of a medieval knight was found under the former site of a famous ice cream shop in Poland, researchers said. The discovery was made on a small plot in Gdańsk, a ...