The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich culture, and mysterious decline. Perhaps most famously, the Mycenaeans ...

GREEK COMBAT GOING GLOBAL Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ... “There are records of numerous deaths in pankration matches during Olympics in ancient Greece.

Modern marines have tested out ancient Greek body armor in an 11-hour simulation of Bronze Age combat and found it to be battle-worthy. The experiment, for a study published in the open-access ...

Archaeology is revealing that the real Amazons were horse-riding, spear-throwing, pants-wearing fearsome female fighters from ancient Scythia.

An ancient mystery may have been solved after researchers, with the help of 13 Hellenic Marines, proved that a unique 3,500-year-old suit of Greek armor wasn't necessarily just for show, but could ...

Romans 8 ancient Roman shoes of 'exceptional size' discovered at Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall. ... Another Greek combat sport practiced in Roman times was boxing.

The findings suggest that Mycenaean armour technology played a key part in the civilization’s dominance of the ancient Mediterranean, the authors say. Nature 629 , 975 (2024) doi: https://doi ...

Humans Modern soldiers test ancient Greek armour to show it worked for war. An experiment inspired by Homer’s description of combat in The Iliad tested the capabilities of the Dendra armour suit ...

Ancient Greek Pankration was the first historical instance of a combined multi-art hand-to-hand fighting system. As such, current MMA may justifiably be termed an evolved form of the Pankration ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Thebes had been under Spartan occupation for three years when a group of Theban exiles stormed the citadel in 379 B.C. and retook the city.