Here are seven suits of real battle armor from centuries past. Dendra armor (3,500 years old) The Dendra armor was unearthed in 1960 at an archaeological site near the village of Dendra in ...

AS fashions go, it may be nearly 500 years out of date. But anyone with a cool £30,000 in their back pocket will be able to own their own a suit of 16th century armour from Warwick Castle. The ...

From card: "Description / Kabuto-- 32 plate, signed "Nobufusa", probably 16th century / Mempo-- signed "Munekatsu" c ... Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 7, case 63. Smithsonian Photographic Services ...

Dating to the 15th century B.C.E., the Dendra armor is composed of 15 copper-alloy sheets held together with leather, which covered the wearer from neck to knees, reports the Telegraph’s Sarah ...

These elaborate suits of armor, all originating from the 16th century, are on display at SAMA. During medieval times, armor conveyed status and sophistication while also protecting the wearer.

A flattened scrap of metal buried at the site of a 17th-century colonial fort in Maryland was once part of a suit of armor, X-rays reveal. Archaeologists discovered the slightly concave "slab ...