Ancient Greek helmets from the classical period kept in the storeroom of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece. Via @historys_mysteries3.14
instagram.comAncient Greek helmets from the classical period kept in the storeroom of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece. Via @historys_mysteries3.14
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university. The museum had a definitive moment during the French Revolution, when the revolutionaries discovered an alternative to vandalizing the images and icons of the old regime: neutralizing them by placing them in the Louvre, which was transformed from a palace into a museum.
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The famous ship burial at Sutton Hoo, dated c. 625, contained a helmet, regalia, and weapon set that would not have been out of place in Sweden, and indeed seems at least in part to have been imported from Uppland. One of the picture plaques on the helmet was even pressed on a matrix made in the same workshop as one from a royal grave-mound at Upps
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