The cache included swords, spears, lances and chainmail. Researchers think these items may have been buried as part of a ...

Danish archaeologists recently announced the discovery during an excavation of a variety of weapons and armor dating to the ...

A set of Iron Age chainmail was recovered from an excavation in Denmark. (Image credit: Vejle Museums) A couple of months later, the researchers discovered fragments of an "exceptionally rare ...

Imagine armor as light as fabric yet stronger than steel, built from materials that link together like molecular chainmail. Scientists may have just taken the first step toward making it a reality.

Resembling the interlocking links in chainmail, the nanoscale material ... light-weight body armor and other uses that demand lightweight, flexible and tough materials. The researchers produced ...

Archaeologists in Denmark were astonished to uncover a massive cache of Iron Age weapons in Denmark ... was a particularly rare set of chainmail armor. There have only been a handful of chainmail ...

The material resembles medieval chainmail at the molecular level and could be used in body armor. Chemists have invented a new material that could be the future of body armor — chainmail.