In this video we will make a Viking wootz sword with an amazing pattern on the blade. We smelted this wootz ingot in our ...

Niels Provos forges a sword at a blacksmith's workshop in Silicon Valley, welding together three separate pieces of iron. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Niels Provos is a Google software engineer who ...

A team of bladesmiths from the School of Mines created this sword for the 2017 Mineral, Metals, & Materials Bladesmithing Competition. The blade is a re-creation of a unique 10th century Viking sword ...

High-tech scans of Viking swords are revealing details of how the weapons were made and how their role changed in Viking society over time. A new analysis of three Viking swords has found that, as ...