In the year 2006, news outlets all across the globe began to report of an extraordinary archaeological find from a Mycenaean palace located on the island of Salamis, the largest island within the Saronic Gulf in the Attica region. This find was of a bronze scale belonging to a larger quilted piece of armor typically fitted over the torso. This scale was stamped with the royal cartouche of Ramesses II (i.e. Ramesses the Great), who reigned over ancient Egypt ca. 1279 – 1213 BCE. This find alone, rewrote part of what we knew of Greek history during the Bronze Age and their role outside of the Aegean.