A rare ancient Greek helmet is heading to the auction block, where experts expect it to sell for as much as £90,000 (roughly $111,000). Made between 500 and 450 B.C.E., it’s “one of the best preserved ...

Historians have argued that similar helmets were worn by ancient warriors of many ... a kind of ancient Greek foot soldier who wore heavy armor to shield themselves. These pieces were often ...

but that limitation may not have mattered in ancient Greek hoplite warfare, where warriors stood close together in a "phalanx" or block, with their shields and spears facing forward. But the ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from ... and a bronze-covered shield, the total weight of their equipment was therefore in the region of 60 to ...