Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

The soldiers fought in replicas of a suit of armor found near the ancient site of Mycenae in Greece ... Discovered in the southern Greek village of Dendra in 1960, the outfit is one of the ...

Modern military volunteers donned replicas of ancient Greek armour and engaged in exercises inspired by Homer’s epic poem The Iliad. The demonstration shows how elite Bronze Age warriors could ...

Greek soldiers recreated ancient life conditions in a study to determine if the Dendra panoply, armor used by the Mycenaeans some 3,500 years ago, could stand up to combat. Study authors found it did.

Drawing on ”The Iliad” and scholarly literature, researchers recreated the meal schedule, wake-up time, fighting strategies, weapons and combat movements of ancient Greek soldiers. The ...

New archaeological evidence from the ancient city of Megiddo — the location ... pottery fragments had been discovered alongside Greek pottery fragments in a layer dating to the late seventh ...

Homer’s epic account of the Trojan war in the Iliad depicts the Mycenaeans — members of an ancient civilization ... and his colleagues equipped 13 Greek marines with replicas of the suit ...

Some ancient customs abide ... souring relations with Moscow. The Ukrainian soldiers only visited Greek Orthodox sites. To reach the imposing cliffside monasteries, the soldiers drove the winding ...

Yet one of history’s fiercest combat units intentionally recruited only gay soldiers. The ancient Greek city-state of Thebes had been under Spartan occupation for three years when a group of ...