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 ...

Medieval armor has a bad reputation when it comes to how much movement is possible for a fully-armored and outfitted knight. Chances are you’ve bought into the notion that it resulted in clunky, slow, ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Eco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”) and Ken Follett (“The Pillars of the Earth”) ...

They were known as the keepers of the Holy Grail, a sometimes mysterious band of religious warriors whose exploits across Europe and the Middle East have inspired modern-day conspiracy theories and ...

Game of Thrones has been brought to life in a bizarre contest where people dressed as knights in armour take to a boxing ring to duel with a sword and shield. Medieval MMA is the brainchild of Russian ...

Ancient graves lying forgotten in a Staffordshire churchyard could belong to eight Knights Templar from the 12th century. Historian Edward Spencer Dyas said he made the “Da Vinci Code-style revelation ...

Sun, April 18, 2021 Published on Apr. 18, 2021 Published on 2021-04-18T17:33:08+07:00 ables of the Knights Templar are legend, but deep beneath a castle on Cyprus -- an island once owned by the ...

Knightfall, the new television series from the History Channel, chronicles the fall of the Knights Templar, a military group that fought on behalf of the Catholic Church – and follows one member who ...

The origins of superstitions can be hard to pin down. There are often several theories about how they started, and a bunch of people ready to debunk those theories. Friday the 13th is one such example ...