Ancient warriors may have trusted layered linen armor because it offered protection without the crushing weight of metal, but rebuilding it reveals just how demanding and uncertain that technology ...

Scientists and modern soldiers tested a replica of the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor in a hands-on experiment and found it was functional, a study said. Photo from Andreas Flouris and Marija Marković, ...

A famous Mycenaean suit of armor was not just ceremonial, but suitable for extended combat, according to a study published May 22 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andreas Flouris of the ...

What is it about ancient armor that compels us? Is it just the meme that men think of Ancient Rome and Greece too much? Or does it have to do with the existential drama of literally fighting for your ...

In the early morning hours of May 18, two volumes of the famous Chu Silk Manuscript arrived in Beijing. The earliest known examples of silk books ever discovered, the manuscripts date to around the ...

Archaeologists working at the Reshui cemetery in Dulan County, Qinghai Province, recovered fragments of gold armor from a high-status burial known as 2018 Xuewei Tomb No. 1. The find, documented in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Made of iron, copper, and leather, the multi-material armor scales are the first and smallest of its kind ever discovered in Han ...

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While excavating a large room in the ruins of an ancient Greek city, archaeologists stumbled upon a massive ceramic jar known as a pithos that was used to hold food. But when they took off the jar’s ...