Two 16th-century cannons unearthed in Arizona may be the oldest firearms ever found in the United States, new research finds. Archaeologists found the cannons while excavating a site called San ...

Deni Seymour has spent decades researching first contact between Native Americans and European settlers. Then she found a 500 ...

The weapons include six 300-year-old cast iron cannon and a bronze gun dating back to the mid-16th Century. Conservators said exposure to salt in the air due to the castle's coastal location ...

This early 16th century cast iron, breech-loading cannon is the only one of its kind in Wales. It is designed to be carried on a ship of war and fired through a gun port on the side of the hull.

Secret papers revealed Irish and British officials were at loggerheads over claims by Dublin that two rare 16th-century bronze cannons had been unlawfully removed from an Irish shipwreck and ...

The cannon is a wall or rampart gun ... It weighs about 40 pounds, heavy by today’s standards, but light for the 16th century, when it could be easily carried long distances on the back of ...