In the midst of a raging naval battle, a more than 3-foot-long sword was flung overboard. It settled in the sandy floor of the Mediterranean Sea — and that’s where it stayed for at least 800 years ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We found them in the attic. It was the hot, dry summer of 2018, when, after my grandfather’s death, we began the long ...

One day, in the mid-12th Century, an unremarkable monk sat down in St Edmund's Abbey, Suffolk, and set pen to parchment. He was chronicling the scandalous life of a man he had met some years earlier – ...

Researchers think the weapon was used in a naval battle by a Crusader about 800 years ago, according to a new study published by the Israel Antiquities Authority. Shlomi Katzin Israel Antiquities ...