The Dendra Panoply 🏺 | The Dendra Panoply is the oldest complete suit of armor ever found, and it may preserve one of the clearest Bronze Age details remembered in the Iliad. Dating to around 1450 BC, the armor enclosed the wearer in roughly 23 kilograms (~50 pounds) of bronze from neck to knees, complete with greaves, arm guards, shoulder plates, and a boar’s tusk helmet. For decades, scholars debated whether something this heavy could actually have been used in combat. Then in 2024, researche
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The Dendra Panoply 🏺 | The Dendra Panoply is the oldest complete suit of armor ever found, and it may preserve one of the clearest Bronze Age details remembered in the Iliad. Dating to around 1450 BC, the armor enclosed the wearer in roughly 23 kilograms (~50 pounds) of bronze from neck to knees, complete with greaves, arm guards, shoulder plates, and a boar’s tusk helmet. For decades, scholars debated whether something this heavy could actually have been used in combat. Then in 2024, researche
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