Body armor from the Bronze Age was strong enough to protect a Mycenaean soldier in battle 3,500 years ago, according to a new study that had 13 soldiers fight in a replica of it for 11 hours.

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 were ...

Scientists and modern soldiers tested a replica of the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor in a hands-on experiment and found it was functional, a study said. Photo from Andreas Flouris and Marija Marković, ...

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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 journal ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A metal detectorist found a haul of artifacts in 2023, and analysis has finally determined that one of the bronze discoveries was a piece of ...

It's only the second known ancient armor of its kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About 2,500 years ago, a man in northwest ...

The ancient leather scale armor could be dated to the period between 786 and 543 BC. (D.L. Xu, P. Wertmann, M. Yibulayinmu.) In the remote Yanghai cemetery near Turfan, Northwest China, a team of ...