In the hills near Brno, Czech Republic, a bent piece of metal turned out to be a remarkable archaeological find. What first looked like debris — a curled sheet among other buried bronze fragments — is ...

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have discovered a rare fragment of chest armor that was likely worn by an elite warrior 3,200 years ago. The armor was initially discovered in 2023 by metal ...

A piece of defensive weaponry manufactured more than three millennia ago during the final phase of the Bronze Age has recently been identified among the fragments of an archaeological assemblage ...

A Bronze Age armor suit, one of the oldest of its kind, has finally proven itself some 3,500 years after it was forged. The suit was discovered in 1960 after a foiled looting attempt in a richly ...

Human History Citizen Scientists Recreate Bronze Age Sword-Fighting Techniques to Uncover Ancient Combat Secrets By George Dvorsky Published April 28, 2020 | Comments (0) 𝕏 ...

Ancient Mycenaean armor tested by Marines and pronounced suitable for extended combat Hellenic Marines ran combat drills in Bronze Age armor, finding it not just ceremonial, but battle-worthy ...

Professor Andreas Flouris, from the University of Thessaly, who led the research said: “The armour that our volunteers wore was the same dimensions and similar weight to the Bronze Age original.

A group of Greek special armed forces personnel wearing the replica armour completed an 11-hour simulation of Late Bronze Age combat protocols based on details from Homer's Iliad.

Craftspeople in Iberia during the Final Bronze Age likely knew how to make hardened steel tools for stone carving (Image credit: Loop Images via Getty Images) Intricate 2,900-year-old engravings ...