Restored 15th-century Italian armor that's now on display at The Met in New York City. But could this armor block a bullet?. | Credit: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Helen Fahnestock ...

Medieval armour was expensive, complicated and vulnerable to damage during marches, sieges and battles. This video explores ...

We know that skimpy armor that shows off a woman’s cleavage is rather impractical for combat and that sculpted “boob plate” armor can be a hazard to your health, but on occasions that women did don ...

Television and film, as any veteran knows, likes to take creative license with the facts, especially when it comes to getting details right. But those little things, as we learned in basic training, ...

The French may have had a better chance at the Battle of Agincourt had they not been weighed down by heavy body armor, say researchers. A new study shows that soldiers carrying armor in Medieval times ...

Treadmill tests of volunteers in medieval armor revealed that the extra work required to move in the suits may have outweighed their protective benefits. Cynthia Graber reports Medieval armor ...