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 ...

Known as the Dendra armor or the Dendra panoply ... a replica of the famous boar-tusk helmet; and replicas of Bronze Age spears and swords, which they wielded for the next 11 hours of simulated ...

Ancient Greek body armor was tough enough to protect a Mycenaean soldier in battle 3,500 years ago, according to a new study.

To find out, researchers equipped volunteers with replicas of the armor and weapons, including spears and stones, and had them complete an 11-hour simulation of Bronze Age warfare based off of ...

As an epic poem about the Trojan War, that momentous clash of two great armies around the city of Troy, Homer’s Iliad describes many acts of combat. Of these, the climactic battle to which all ...

Some suits of armor were designed to impress rather than to protect; others were lifesaving tools used in battle, where they were tested against swords, spears ... the Late Bronze Age collapse.

They wore bronze armor breastplates, helmets, shin guards, shoulder pads, and sometimes foot protectors, thigh guards and forearm guards. With an eight-foot long spear, a short sword, and a bronze ...

swords and spears. Egyptians also used light, fast, horse-drawn chariots. The chariot driver wore a leather or bronze helmet and armor, and was accompanied by another soldier armed with a bow ...

Some researchers argued that this armor, composed of bronze plates weighing over 40 ... The soldiers, dressed in armor and equipped with swords, spears, and daggers, conducted an eleven-hour ...

Body armor from the Bronze Age was strong enough to protect ... "The efficacy and variety of Mycenaean swords and spears has long been recognised. The addition of 'heavy' armor will have given ...