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Between c. 1400 and 1200 BC, impressive palaces were the focal points of power for the Mycenaeans in Bronze Age Greece.
History buffs and culture vultures, mark your calendars for an exhibition that promises to whisk you away to Ancient Greece without even leaving California. The Getty Villa Museum, bouncing back ...
The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich culture, and mysterious decline. Perhaps most famously, the Mycenaeans ...
Greek soldiers fought in a replica of the ancient body armor for 11 hours. Credit: Giannis Koutentakis/AMNA. Ancient Greek body armor was tough enough to protect a Mycenaean soldier in battle 3,500 ...
Melbourne’s Hellenic Museum has just added a stunning centerpiece to its Heroes and Hoplites: Warfare in Ancient Greece exhibition: a hoplite panoply dating between 400 and 200 BCE, on loan from ...
A single grave and its extraordinary contents are changing the way archaeologists view two great ancient Greek ... Bronze Age Greece from around 1600 until 1200 B.C ... warrior’s armor.
The Apollo Art Auctions company, which is auctioning the item, said the helmet is made from bronze and dates to between 500 and 450 B.C.. Helmets that cover most of the face like this, with only a ...
An ancient Greek warrior depicted wearing a linothorax. Aldrete’s tests provided detailed data showing that the glued linen armor could stop arrows from traditional bows at various distances. This, he ...
Ancient Greek body armor, dating back 3,500 years, has been demonstrated to be battle-ready according to a new study where 13 soldiers wore replicas during an 11-hour simulation. ... “The Dendra armor ...
Written in Linear B (an ancient form of writing adapted from the Minoans by the Mycenaeans), these tablets indicated the possibility of Bronze Age armor in the civilizations of the Aegean. Still, when ...