Mamluks: The Incredible Islamic Slave-Warriors of Egypt
Introduction Often overshadowed by the exploits of the Ottomans in Europe and the Near East, it should be noted however that it was the Mamluks…
Introduction Often overshadowed by the exploits of the Ottomans in Europe and the Near East, it should be noted however that it was the Mamluks…
Who Were the Hittites? The Hittites originating from Anatolia (corresponding to modern-day Turkey), carved out an empire (from circa 15th-13th century BC) that encompassed most…
Whenever we talk about a medieval knight our reveries cling on to the resplendent image of a chivalrous warrior incredibly armored from head to toe,…
Introduction There is a certain sense of almost fantastical fascination when it comes to the popular scope of Samurai warriors. But if we dissociate popular…
A few days ago, the realm of archaeology and history was caught up in a hullabaloo over King Tut’s leather-made warrior armor. The story boiled…
Back in 2014, a study conducted on the analysis of mitochondrial DNA, extracted from Norse skeletons dated from the Viking Age, suggested the possibility of…
A few days ago we talked about spectacular warrior armor panoplies that were historically used throughout the ages by the military elites of the society….
Fashion and technology – while these words have vastly different connotations in our modern world, their combined scope in history was mostly related to warfare….
Bjarne Henning Nielsen, an archaeologist hailing from northern Jutland, has put forth his hypothesis concerning the location of the tomb of the renowned Viking warrior…
An incredible collaborative effort from the historians from the University of Glasgow and craniofacial experts from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has resulted in what…