While excavating Visegrád Citadel, a 13th-century fortress north of Budapest, Hungary, that was once a royal residence, archaeologists uncovered a trove of military history. Inside a filled-in moat, ...

The helmet and chain mail coat found near it have distinctive features that indicate they were copies of Byzantine armor, study author Helen Gittos, a medieval historian at the University of ...

Medieval armor would cover the body and extend ... was able to “do a somersault armed in all his armor except his bascinet [helmet]”. Armor was clearly effective; it was expensive, heavy ...