Fans of the literary saga A Song of Ice and Fire (or its television adaptation, Game of Thrones) will remember that “Valyrian steel” was a special alloy used to make bladed weapons in the now-lost ...

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In this video, we take on the challenge of crafting an Ambulet Thor's Hammer out of Wootz steel, a type of crucible steel with a distinctive pattern of banding and waves. We start by smelting the raw ...

The Mandalorian is tasked with delivering 50-year-old Baby Yoda to the Client, however the mission does not go quite to plan (AP Photo/Richard Drew) The Mandalorian is a new series set in the Star ...

The nearly 700-year-old ceremonial sword, which is likely to be returned to Hyderabad by the British government after 115 years, may have been a product of a local wootz or crucible steel industry in ...

Now that winter is here, and the time is nigh to do full-scale battle with the Night King and the army of the dead, the limited bits of Valyrian steel strewn across the Game of Thrones world are more ...

Micro-etching done on the surface often enhance the "watered silk" pattern of old swords made of wootz steel. Reuters A 75-centimetre long Indian sword made in the late eighteenth century and probably ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) You might have seen our recent Nanowerk Spotlight on modern military nanotechnology (Military nanotechnology - how worried should we be?) and read about the hundreds of millions ...

In medieval times, crusading Christian knights cut a swathe through the Middle East in an attempt to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims. The Muslims in turn cut through the invaders using a very ...