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A drawing from the Catalog of the Royal Armoury of Madrid by the medievalist Achille Jubinal in the 19th century. The original specimen was destroyed by a fire in 1884. The maquahuitl (Classical Nahuatl: māccuahuitl, other orthographic variants include mākkwawitl and mācquahuitl; plural māccuahuimeh), [4] a type of macana, was a common weapon used by the Aztec military forces and other ...
Halayudha – A plough used as a weapon by Balarama. Kaladanda – the staff of Death is a special and lethal club used by the God Yama or God of Naraka or Hell in Hindu mythology. It was the ultimate weapon; once fired it would kill anybody before it no matter what boons he had to protect himself. Kaumodaki – The Gada (mace) of the Hindu god ...
Tolkien devised several constructed languages with terms for types of weapons.. Sword: Noldorin Sindarin: magl, magol, [T 1] North Sindarin magor, [T 2] Quenya: makil, macil. [T 1] Specific types of sword were named lango (broad sword), eket, ecet (short sword), and lhang (cutlass, sword).
The buried weapon was rusty but still in good condition, archaeologists said. 700-year-old weapon unearthed by metal detectorist searching forest in Poland. See it
An assortment of club weapons from the Wujing Zongyao from left to right: flail, metal bat, double flail, truncheon, mace, barbed mace. A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon or tool [1] since prehistory.
When the publican informed a soldier of Ross' death, they replied, "damned glad at it". Buried in the Diggers' enclosure at Ballarat Old Cemetery on 7 December 1854. [154] Horace Rowlands: unknown unknown survivor According to a letter published in the Courier, 2 December 1904 edition, he spent the night before the battle at the Eureka Stockade ...
A silver Peruvian atlatl from the 12th-15th century Atlatl in use. A spear-thrower, spear-throwing lever, or atlatl (pronounced / ˈ æ t l æ t əl / ⓘ [1] or / ˈ ɑː t l ɑː t əl /; [2] Nahuatl ahtlatl [ˈaʔt͡ɬat͡ɬ]) is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart or javelin-throwing, and includes a bearing surface that allows the user to store energy during the ...
Unlike the xiphos, which is a thrusting weapon, the kopis was a hacking weapon in the form of a thick, curved single edged iron sword. In Athenian art, Spartan hoplites were often depicted using a kopis instead of the xiphos , as the kopis was seen as a quintessential "villain" weapon in Greek eyes.