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Bronze scales were found at Mycenae and Troy; scale armour, the oldest form of metal body armor, was used widely throughout the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. In May 1960 [4] Swedish archaeologists discovered the earliest example of a beaten bronze cuirass at Dendra, dated at the end of the 15th century BC. [5]
A Greek hoplite with muscle cuirass, spear, shield, Corinthian helmet and sheathed sword. Ancient Greek weapons and armor were primarily geared towards combat between individuals. Their primary technique was called the phalanx, a formation consisting of massed shield wall, which required heavy frontal armor and medium-ranged weapons such as ...
Fresco of an ancient Macedonian soldier wearing chainmail armor and bearing a thureos shield; 3rd century BC The thyreophoroi or thureophoroi ( Greek : θυρεοφόροι ; sg. : thureophoros / thyreophoros , θυρεοφόρος) [ 1 ] were a type of infantry soldier , common in the 3rd to 1st centuries BC, who carried a large oval shield ...
Gan Jiang and Mo Ye, the legendary Chinese twin swords named after their creators. Glory of Ten Powers, a legendary Chinese sword allegedly forged in Tibet by husband-and-wife magicians of the ancient Bön tradition. Huàyǐng, a branch that morphed into a sword in the hands of Zhuānxū, has the ability to command the elements and animals.
A panoply is a complete suit of armor. The word represents the Ancient Greek πανοπλία (panoplía), where the word πᾶν (pân) means "all", and ὅπλον (hóplon) means "arms". Thus, panoply refers to the full armor of a hoplite or heavily-armed soldier, i.e. the shield, breastplate, helmet, and greaves, together with the sword and ...
From the 16th century BC, swords with rounded tips appeared, having a grip which was an extension of the blade. [14] They were 130 cm (4 ft) long and 3 cm (1 in) broad. [15] Another type, the single-edged sword was a solid piece of bronze c. 66 cm (2.17 ft)–74 cm (2.43 ft) long.
An Ancient Greek bronze cuirass, dated between 620 and 580 BC. In Hellenistic and Roman times, the musculature of the male torso was idealized in the form of the muscle cuirass [2] or "heroic cuirass" (in French the cuirasse esthétique) [3] sometimes further embellished with symbolic representation in relief, familiar in the Augustus of Prima Porta and other heroic representations in official ...
Winged "ΤΑΛΩΝ" armed with a stone.Obverse of silver didrachma from Phaistos, Crete (c. 300/280–270 BC) (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris). In Greek mythology, Talos, also spelled Talus (/ ˈ t eɪ l ɒ s /; [1] Greek: Τάλως, Tálōs) or Talon (/ ˈ t eɪ l ɒ n, ən /; Greek: Τάλων, Tálōn), was a man of bronze who protected Crete from pirates and invaders.