Modern soldiers test ancient Greek armour🛡️⚔️ Andreas Flouris at the University of Thessaly in Greece and his colleagues recruited marines to wear 23-kilogram Dendra armour replicas. Inspired by Homer’s description of combat in The Iliad, each participant walked, ran, rode on a replica chariot and performed combat moves involving a sword, spear, bow and arrow and even a stone. The experiment’s results strongly suggest that the 3500-year-old Dendra armour suit – one of the oldest complete suits