Wall Relief of Horse Archers, Neo-Assyrian 865-860 BC. (British Museum) A horse archer is a cavalryman armed with a bow who can shoot while riding on the back of a horse. This style of warfare appears ...

The 9th and 10th centuries AD represented a difficult time for Europe. As the Eastern Roman Empire gave way to the Byzantine Empire, different groups jockeyed for control over western Europe, ...

This is the reconstructed face of a medieval archer who drowned on King Henry VIII’s ship the Mary Rose. And scientists at a Welsh university who gave the long lost bowman his face say they have also ...

“NOW, good fellows, do like Englishmen this day!” the Earl of Surrey is supposed to have exclaimed as he rallied his troops for the Battle of Flodden, one of the landmark conflicts of British history ...

HIGHWAY officials are used to opposition in the form of conservationists and angry residents. But Highways England has found a new enemy – a band of medieval archers. Following a demonstration by ...

HIGHWAY officials are used to opposition in the form of conservationists and angry residents. But Highways England has found a new enemy – a band of medieval archers. Following a demonstration by ...