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 ...

The Green Knight swings his battle ax at my head. Teeth clenched, I strike back with my shield to block the blow. My black leather glove only slightly cushions the shock, which reverberates all the ...

Six hundred years ago, an unlucky knight may have fallen into or lost his sword in a bog filled with peat. That's one explanation researchers are putting forth after an incredibly well-preserved sword ...

The armored combat sport of "buhurt" — from an old French word meaning "to wallop" — delivers adrenaline and violence surpassing the bashing found in hockey and football. (Mike Barry / For The Times) ...

Taking a page from the Medieval Times book of crowd entertainment, Russian mixed martial arts promotion M-1 Global began hosting armored knight jousts as in-between-fight spectacles in 2014. The ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization boasts 31 nations in its ranks, millions of troops from those states, multiple arsenals of nuclear weapons and thousands of tanks. It also features knights in ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a medieval knight, buried under a shuttered ice cream parlor in the Polish city of Gdańsk. Experts have been working at the site in the historic ...

Mark Teppo took a deep dive into the dark world of heavy armor to complete his work on The Mongoliad book series. The third and final installment comes out in February. Teppo is chief creative officer ...