In an extract from her new book, A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season, Lara Maiklem describes the thrill of discovering a 16th century sword on a Bankside beach. "I headed straight ...

The sword "Yamanbagiri Kunihiro" is seen on display ... period (1467 to the late 16th century). In the "Touken Ranbu" swordplay simulation game, Yamanbagiri Kunihiro takes human form, and is ...

A Muslim settlement at the time of Arab rule over southern Spain, it came under Christian control in the 13th century. For a brief period in the mid-1400s ... carrying the sword with which ...