Antique bayonets, an early 19th Century cavalry sword and a Nazi dagger are among items being sought by police after a burglary in Northamptonshire.

BBC: Antique weapons stolen in Daventry burglary

The items taken were a German WWII Mauser bayonet, an inscribed Nazi NSKK dagger, an 1821 Pattern light cavalry sword, a British Pattern 1859 Naval cutlass bayonet, a Webley Vulcan .22 air rifle, and an 1895 Austrian Mannlicher bayonet.

BBC: Antique weapons stolen in Daventry burglary

On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.

ECONOMIST: The history of the Arabic-speaking peoples