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Speaker: Gregory AldreteFor nearly 1,000 years, one of the most common forms of protection used by ancient Mediterranean warriors, including the armies of the Greeks and Alexander the Great, was the linothorax, a type of body armor apparently made out of linen. Due to the perishable nature of its material, however, no examples have survived, and today it is poorly understood, and is known only through fragmentary descriptions in literature and images on pottery and sculpture. Employing only the…See More

Speaker: Bonnie EffrosBy far the most plentiful remains we possess of the early Middle Ages are the objects that contemporaries regularly placed in the graves of deceased relations and other associates. Most items chosen for burial were not made with this end in mind, but were instead adapted to this purpose because of a connection they were perceived as having with the dead. In some cases, the objects may have belonged to the dead or surviving family members; in other instances, the personal…See More