It really boils me when people doing these Greek myth movies are using the wrong attires (800 years off target!). The new pic released from Chris Nolan's #Odyssey ( https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-odyssey-matt-damon-odysseus-christopher-nolan-1236311018/ ) shows an attire from the Classical period, and not from the #Mycenaean times. Here's how they really looked at the time instead.

Also, please stop showing Greek landscapes completely bare in #movies. We have trees. Especially on the mainland.

Mycenaeans wore amber as a symbol of the sun and social status in Bronze Age Greece

Amber, the fossilized tree resin treasured for its warmth and beauty, held significant cultural and symbolic importance for the Mycenaeans, one of Greece’s earliest civilizations...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/10/mycenaeans-used-amber-as-a-symbol-of-the-sun-and-social-status/

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Still trying to wrap my head around this experimental #Mycenaean #armor endurance test:

"The authors recruited thirteen volunteers from the Marines of the Hellenic Armed Forces, equipped them with replicas of the #DendraArmor and #BronzeAge weapons, and ran them through an eleven-hour simulated Bronze Age combat protocol."

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1044754

While working on the basic moves of my #pbta #ttrpg I hit a wall cause I needed to know how to calculate in-world costs...

So I spent two days researching #Mycenaean economics and #Homeric gift-giving in order to then write a two page guide for Land of Myth: Age of Palaces

I've been working on the #Homeric moves for my #pbta #ttrpg

It led me down a fascinating rabbit hole about money in #Mycenaean Greece.

I'd done some reading before, but I just found a very nice article* and took a nice dive into Linear B tablets from the palace of Pylos and the commodities used in the Late #BronzeAge exchange economy.

(*J.Zurbach "Metal money before coinage in the Aegean, ca. 1400-1600 BC")

They aimed their spears at wooden targets, and their chariot was connected to a treadmill motor, but for 11 hours, these elite soldiers from the Hellenic Armed Forces pretended to fight as if it was the 15th century B.C. @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/science/ancient-greek-armor-marines-study.html?smid=url-share #Greece #warfare #mycenaean #armor #ancient

From 30 May: Bizarre armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective - Enlarge / Armor based on the Dendra artifact being tested.Andreas Flouris and Stavros Petm... https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/researchers-get-modern-marines-to-test-ancient-greek-armor/ #archeology #armor #greek #mycenaean-civilization #science

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this (copy) Mycenaean dish with swallow and lily motif. I bought it as a souvenir, in the Archaeological Museum of Cyprus, in Nicosia.

Ancient Greeks Often Married Their First Cousins, Scientists Surprised To Find.

The study offers new insights into Aegean Bronze Age marriages and provides the first Mycenaean biological family tree.
https://www.iflscience.com/ancient-greeks-often-married-their-first-cousins-scientists-surprised-to-find-67099 #Greeks #Mycenaean #marriage