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Museum Replicas launches new brands in Katana - Bushido and Shogun “The Longquan Sword began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, more than 2,600 years ago. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Ou Yizi, the originator of the sword master in Yue, was the founder of the Longquan sword. Ou Yizi was born during the period of disputes among the nations of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He discovered the difference in...

Gladiator Mosaic 320-30 AD Villa Borghese Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, gladiators were not given random weapons, sent into the arena and told to fight. When someone became a gladiator, they were assigned a specific type and style of fighting and practiced it constantly. A specific type of gladiator only fought another specific type of gladiator as determined by well established rules. These pairings were intended to prov...

The weapons used by pirates throughout the ages are as unique and varied as the pirates themselves. The weapons from Roman Empire times would be completely different than those used by pirates in China 1000 years later. Generally though, when people say “pirate” they are referring to the pirates that plagued the Caribbean from the late 1500’s to the early 1800’s. Pirates of this time were experts at exploiting the weakn...