Mycenaean armour tested

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/05/23/3500-year-old-mycenaean-armour-was-suitable-for-extended-battle/

Interesting stuff and right up my alley

[gavindbm]

Useful snippet on testing practical use of Dendra armour.

[Keraunos]

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2024/05/23/3500-year-old-mycenaean-armour-was-suitable-for-extended-battle/

Interesting stuff and right up my alley

So the Mycenaeans were from Wales as well were they now?

[Imperial Dave]

Didn't you know?

Tsk tsk

 

[Ian61]

It has always been my opinion that ceremonial armour probably evolves from battlefield armour OR is more artistically worked version of battlefield armour. The alternative, that someone decides to coat themselves with metal clothes, does not make much sense. I know some ceremonial clothes have become ridiculously unwieldy but this is also often an evolution over time.

[Erpingham]

So the Mycenaeans were from Wales as well were they now?

I thought actually they were from the other side.  Brutus, the ancestor of the Ancient British, and hence Welsh, was a Trojan.  The Trojans also founded the Roman Empire.  What are the odds ? 

[Imperial Dave]

Absolutely. Read the Mabinogian