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1 day ago · Known as the Dendra armor or the Dendra panoply, it dates to the 15th century B.C. a few centuries before the Trojan War that inspired Homer probably took place. A volunteer from the 32nd Marines ...
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4 days ago · Stonehenge was built in six stages between 3000 and 1520 bce, during the transition from the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) to the Bronze Age. As a prehistoric stone circle, it is unique because of its artificially shaped sarsen stones (blocks of Cenozoic silcrete), arranged in post-and-lintel formation, and because of the remote origin of ...
1 day ago · The authors recruited 13 volunteers from the Marines of the Hellenic Armed Forces, equipped them with replicas of the Dendra armor and Bronze Age weapons, and ran them through an 11-hour simulated ...
5 days ago · It is called the Stone Age because it is characterised by when early humans started using stones, such as flint, for tools and weapons. They also used stones to light fires. Credit: Walkagainsttraffick. Stone Age sites across the world also show evidence of a number of other materials being used, from bones and antlers, to clay, and some (very ...
1 day ago · Russia, China and the U.S. are all thought to have large programs to develop directed energy weapons using high-powered (gigawatt) microwave and laser technology. Their obvious military uses ...
1 day ago · Swiss longsword, 15th or 16th century. A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed tip. A slashing sword is more likely to be curved and to have a ...
4 days ago · The Stone Age traces its origins back to approximately 3.4 million years ago when hominids in modern-day Ethiopia first began using stone tools. This epoch, encompassing 99% of human history, persisted until around 6,000-4,000 BP (Before Present). It is subdivided into three main periods: the Palaeolithic (or 'Old Stone Age'), Mesolithic (or ...
