Fans of the literary saga A Song of Ice and Fire (or its television adaptation, Game of Thrones) will remember that “Valyrian ...

A nicely made knife is both an object of beauty ... His artistically forged, welded and fabricated metalwork encompasses Damascus knives, swords and axes influenced by Saxon bladesmithing from ...

while remaining hard enough to be sharpened – a property which is useful in edged weapons like swords. While the process is nothing like that used by smiths in Damascus working with Wootz steel ...

Excalibur isn’t real. Attila’s “sword of Mars” was folklore. Also, we’ve developed some really solid ideas of how Damascus steel was made, and none of them involve metal from space.