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 ...

The Linothorax Project employed weavers to layer their linen creations, students to test ancient methods of gluing to strengthen the linen, and local bow hunters to shoot the armor from specified ...

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In 356-323 B.C. Alexander the Great of Macedon conquered almost the entire known world by military force. Surprisingly, not much is known about how he did it! An ancient and mysterious armor called… ...

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.

Alexander the Great and his soldiers protected themselves with linothorax, a type of body armor made by laminating together layers of linen. Modern tests using the materials available at the time ...

Potsherd Site of Vlochos, Greece. Archaeologists have identified the unexpected remains of a large, 2,500-year-old Greek settlement in western Thessaly. The existence of the hilltop site, near the ...

Andreas Flouris at the University of Thessaly in Greece and his colleagues recruited modern Greece’s Hellenic Marines to wear 23-kilogram Dendra armour replicas as each participant walked, ran ...