Subject: elite warrior

Culture: Mycenaean

Setting: Late Helladic, Greece/Aegean mid 2nd millenium BC

Object: dagger

Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery *

"Mycenean, about 1400 BC --> Light chariots formed the mainstay of the armies of Mycenae in the late 2nd millenium BC.

This remarkable armour of bronze plates would have been worn by a charioteer. It was excavated from a chamber tomb at Dendra in Greece. Archaeological Museum, Navplio"