In this video, I'm demonstrating how I made a Damascus knife out of steel rulers. This knife is surprisingly sharp and ...

Owen forges a modern Damascus knife using a pattern-welding technique practised in the Iron Age. This method, which involves combining different types of steel, was invented to give strength to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Quality Damascus knives can cost over $5,000. Their signature swirl pattern comes from layering two different alloys and folding them over each other, sometimes ...

This may have started ‘accidentally’ in the former Yugoslavia but it has since become a pattern. EU satellites ... but to move on to Damascus and Tehran. Yet the US victory had an unintended ...

The streets of Damascus are uncharacteristically empty on Saturday night, Zaina Shahla, a 42-year-old journalist living in the centre of the Syrian capital, tells the BBC. After a "normal" morning ...