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 ...

The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization ... the University of Thessaly in Greece and the University of Birmingham in the UK recreated the Dendra armor and equipped modern-day ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from the wealthy middling ranks of society, particularly the farmers. They wore bronze armor breastplates ...