Archaeologists recently discovered five musket balls at Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts and traced them back to the event marked in history as “the Shot Heard ’Round the ...

A team of experts put an 18th-century musket to the test — revealing how deadly it really was. At Fort Ticonderoga, a centuries-old weapon is put through a modern test. Using ballistic gel, a ...

Archaeologists believe the five musket balls unearthed in Concord's Minute Man National Historical Park were fired by colonial militia during the battle that sparked the Revolutionary War.

On the grounds of the present-day Alexandria, Va., courthouse, an interesting Model 1816 Springfield musket was found, muzzle-down, in an abandoned privy during archaeological studies prior to the ...

Built in the 1860s during the Second Saudi State, the fort became the stage for one of the kingdom’s most pivotal moments — ...

After going missing for more than 50 years, a firearm dating back to the Revolutionary War has been recovered and donated to a Philadelphia museum, the FBI says. The .78-caliber musket, which was ...

Musket balls from "Shot Heard Round the World" found in Massachusetts CONCORD – Archaeologists in Concord, Massachusetts found five musket balls they say were fired on April 19, 1775 at Minute ...