Dr. Flouris's team prepared replicas of the Dendra armor and Bronze Age weapons. Then, 13 marines underwent a quick course in ancient fighting principles based on sources such as Homer's "Iliad." ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

For decades, archaeologists have wondered whether a suit of Bronze Age armor found in Greece ... It was found near the site of Mycenae, an ancient city about 70 miles west of Athens, and the ...

The ancient Greeks wore a variety of hats to protect them from the elements and to act as aesthetic embellishments ...

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 ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest repatriation marking a broader shift in ...