A Greek military volunteer wears a replica of the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor and bears a Bronze Age replica sword. The helmet is fashioned from boar tusks and represents the bravery and hunting ...

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 ...

Between c. 1400 and 1200 BC, impressive palaces were the focal points of power for the Mycenaeans in Bronze Age Greece.

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 ...

Mycenaean palatial centers disappeared around 1200 BCE, and the supplies of Dendra-type armor disappeared with them. Bronze Age warriors were often buried with their weapons, swords and spears ...

Modern marines have tested out ancient Greek body armor in an 11-hour simulation of Bronze Age combat and found it to be battle-worthy. The experiment, for a study published in the open-access ...

Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a ...

A team of researchers were inspired by a “chance dinner-table conversation” and decided to test a replica of the ancient Greek armor by simulating a Late Bronze Age battle, according to a ...

For decades, archaeologists have wondered whether a suit of Bronze Age armor found in Greece—boar's tusk helmet, bronze plates and all—would really have protected its wearer in combat.