In this first installment, Ganor investigates the famed linen armor of Ancient Greece, known as the linothorax.

reveals that some ancient armor could've certainly given warriors a leg up. "It was perfectly evident that this armor could have been used in battle," says Ken Wardle, a Greek prehistorian at the ...

From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress.

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 ...

Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, with her abode the sky, was perhaps the most resplendent of all the beings in the Greek pantheon.

According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides ... Dressed in heavy bronze armor this was obviously a very dangerous activity! Maintaining triremes was expensive, and richer aristocrats ...

The Amazons, a tribe of fierce female warriors, were often depicted in Greek mythology ... with weapons and armor, suggesting that these warrior women may have been real. Ancient Egyptians ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... world in the 400s B.C. In previous centuries Greek warriors had worn very thick, heavy armor, much of which, by the classical period, had been ...

To make a serious comparison between Confucianism and ancient Greek philosophy, one must look further back, to the many ...

Ancient sources provide the ... of Philip II was found in the modern Greek village of Vergina, the site of Aigai. Aside from the golden ossuaries, armor, and wreaths, among the most impressive ...

The Iliad and the Odyssey, the ancient Greek poems attributed to Homer ... The gold-coated inlay on the cap is reminiscent of Achilles' armor, while the champagne-tone gold components are ...