For decades, archaeologists have wondered whether a suit of Bronze Age armor found in Greece—boar's tusk helmet ... It was found near the site of Mycenae, an ancient city about 70 miles west ...

The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

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 ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is ... A hoplite had to pay for his armour himself, unless his father was killed in battle. Then he was given his father's equipment.