Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited ... With an eight-foot long spear, a short sword, and a bronze-covered shield, the total weight of their equipment ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...

Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess ... He now carried her brightly polished shield in one hand and his sword in the other. He knew that he must be getting close to Medusa ...