Intellectual life thrives on mystery. When it comes to ancient Greece, one of those mysteries is the linothorax—the flimsy-looking, hip-length armor that you see warriors wearing on Greek vases.

Aldrete, a professor of history and humanistic studies, is an author, along with Scott Bartell and Alicia Aldrete, of Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery ...

Surprisingly, not much is known about how he did it! An ancient and mysterious armor called Linothorax was apparently used by Alexander and his men which may have been one of the reasons for his ...

Surprisingly, not much is known about how he did it! An ancient and mysterious armor called Linothorax was apparently used by Alexander and his men which may have been one of the reasons for his ...

Linothorax, a type of armor that is said to have been used in ancient Greece, has been confirmed to exist since the 8th century BC, but few existing specimens remain. The wife of the professor in ...

This mosaic of Alexander the Great shows the king wearing linothorax — an armor made from laminated ... have been effective in protecting against arrows and swords and other ancient weapons. In order ...

Archaeologists have identified the unexpected remains of a large, 2,500-year-old Greek settlement in western Thessaly ... had long believed that the ancient settlement was fairly insignificant.

Modern military volunteers donned replicas of ancient Greek armour and engaged ... Andreas Flouris at the University of Thessaly in Greece and his colleagues recruited modern Greece’s Hellenic ...