Believe it or not, helmets reinforced with metal were used by the Sumerians and Akkadians as far back as 2300 B.C.E., and Mycenaean Greeks used bronze helmets (typically quite heavy) in 1700 B.C.E.

This find, made in May, serendipitously coincided with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi occupation of Breslau in ...