Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering the ground with toxic materials. Today, a team of scientists in Germany has scavenged a pile of this deeply ...

Musket balls that have been buried in soil for hundreds of years can be converted into a key ingredient for next-generation ...

The American Revolution’s humble beginnings 250 years ago are reflected in a cut down, beat up, old musket — one that even experts recognize isn’t much to look at. “If that gun was on a table, ...

Update 10/24: The musket sold at auction for $492,000. It's one of the most infamous — and disputed — quotes of the American Revolution: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." Colonists ...

After a deadly confrontation between British soldiers and Colonial rebels in Lexington in the early morning of April 19, 1775, the Redcoats advanced to Concord where they engaged in a gunfight with ...

CONCORD – Archaeologists in Concord, Massachusetts found five musket balls they say were fired on April 19, 1775 at Minute Man National Historic Park during the event famously known as "The Shot Heard ...

Russ Boswell has been playing games ever since he was old enough to hold a controller. He started his love for gaming with the NES and Super Mario Bros. specifically. Over the years, he has collected ...

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 World,” ...