I've been reading the Seamus Heaney translation of "Beowulf." As a young graduate student in English, I thought I might become a medievalist, so I took a course in Old English and read some of ...

Ancient warriors on the South Pacific Island meticulously crafted human bone daggers made from their fathers' thighs over blades made from bones of the cassowary. These human bone daggers were the ...

A study of medieval human remains from a castle in Spain has unraveled fascinating insights into a group of warrior monks. Researchers examined the remains of 25 individuals buried between the 12th ...

In New Guinea, bands of brave warriors once used daggers crafted from bone to finish off their enemies in hand-to-hand combat. They expropriated bones from two very different sources – one was the ...