Does Homer's Iliad really describe the horned helmets of the Mycenaean Era, or was he talking about something else entirely?

The cause of the Trojan War, famously, was the elopement of beautiful Helen, queen of the Greek city of Sparta, with Paris, Hector’s brother and a handsome prince from the Asiatic kingdom of Troy.

A Trojan warrior is likely to have worn a helmet of boar’s tusk sewn to a leather backing, and possibly wore bronze neck and shoulder guards, breastplate, or curiass, of bronze plates sewn ...