From the courts of emperors to the battlefields of history, swords have long symbolized power, honor, and craftsmanship. As collectors vie for these treasured relics, a select few have gained ...

suggesting the child becomes a "swordologist" or alternatively a "doctor of daggers", although most agreed they also secretly aspired to be a professor of swords. Laura Bell, head of collections ...

"Steel developed through the first millennium B.C. across much of the Old World," Paul Craddock, an expert in ancient ...