researchers have declared the 3,500-year-old design fit for battle. Discovered in the southern Greek village of Dendra in 1960, the outfit is one of the oldest complete suits of European armor in ...

Greek naval infantry conducted combat exercises in armour replicas from 3,500 years ago. This helped resolve a 64-year-old dispute among archaeologists, and scientists now know the role ancient ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited ... who had forced the Greeks to run at them in full armor during the battles of Marathon in 490 and Plataea ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country ... A hoplite had to pay for his armour himself, unless his father was killed in battle. Then he was given his father's equipment.

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... their heroic stand at the critical Battle of Thermopylae in 480—the Persians may well have conquered Greece. Later in the same century, however ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country ... A hoplite had to pay for his armour himself, unless his father was killed in battle. Then he was given his father's equipment.