A rare ancient Greek helmet is heading to the auction block, where experts expect it to sell for as much as £90,000 (roughly ...

If you want to buy a rare 2,500-year-old helmet that belonged to an ancient Greek warrior, this very artifact is […] The post ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from the wealthy middling ranks of society, particularly the farmers. They wore bronze armor breastplates ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... world in the 400s B.C. In previous centuries Greek warriors had worn very thick, heavy armor, much of which, by the classical period, had been ...

in "Arms and Armor of the Greeks" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) wrote that such helmets were used by warriors from many other ancient Greek city-states, including Sparta. The object is "a ...

According to the Ancient Greek historian ... along side it, these soldiers would attempt to board the enemy and fight in hand-to-hand combat. Dressed in heavy bronze armor this was obviously ...