This armor wasn't just for show. It could have seen deadly combat during the epic Trojan War.

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The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

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Lapo Gianni Marcucci French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research At the beginning of the century, archaeologists in a town just outside Paris discovered an ancient graveyard.