Mycenaean armor eventually became obsolete, giving way to lighter and more agile hoplite armor in the 8th century BC. However ...

For decades, archaeologists have wondered whether a suit of Bronze Age armor found in Greece ... It was found near the site of Mycenae, an ancient city about 70 miles west of Athens, and the ...

Given that Odysseus was fighting in Bronze Age Greece, he’d have fought ... sets of the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor (the oldest full set of Mycenaean armour ever found) and recruited 13 marines ...

I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the ...

the Bronze Age was in full swing in Europe.The island of Crete was centre for the expansion of the bronze trade to Europe. The Mycenaeans created the finest bronze weapons. They came from southern ...

In 2024, a team of researchers from the University of Thessaly led by Andreas Flouris recreated sets of the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor ... the Mycenaean Dendra armour for combat by putting it on ...

At 54 years old, Damon is the perfect age ... armor (the oldest full set of Mycenaean armour ever found) and recruited 13 marines from the Hellenic Armed Forces to test it out in an 11-hour Bronze ...