A group of students from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has recently tried to re-build a Linothorax.

Their outcome is quite impressive, although they reconstructed it only by written guidances as linen is not the consistent material.


Here is their documentation: http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/Linothorax.html

An article from discovery.com: http://news.discovery.com/archaeolog...eat-armor.html

A German translation may be found here
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http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/0,1518,675814,00.html



What do you think about the validity of their result?

XSamatan