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 ...

Photo from Andreas Flouris and Marija Marković, shared by Andreas Flouris When archaeologists unearthed a nearly complete set of ancient Greek armor in 1960, they solved one riddle and triggered ...

At the heart of the study is a suit of Mycenaean armour discovered in the southern Greek village of Dendra in 1960. Made of copper alloy plating tied together with leather, and featuring a boar ...

Modern military volunteers donned replicas of ancient Greek armour and engaged in exercises inspired by Homer’s epic poem The Iliad. The demonstration shows how elite Bronze Age warriors could ...

The best way to determine whether the armor-clad Greek warriors besieging Troy were a fact or fiction, Flouris’s team decided, was to go and try to fight like them. The first step Flouris ...

Greek soldiers recreated ancient life conditions in a study to determine if the Dendra panoply, armor used by the Mycenaeans some 3,500 years ago, could stand up to combat. Study authors found it did.

This study was led by Andreas Flouris of the University of Thessaly, Greece, and his team, providing fresh insights into ancient Greek warfare. The armor in question is one of Europe's oldest ...