Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at ...

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

Ancient Greek vases have revealed the hidden names of Amazons, mythology's warrior women, in a report deciphering ancient languages unspoken for millennia. In the forthcoming study of pottery ...

From Viking berserkers to Spartan warriors, many of our ideas about ancient fighters are more myth than fact. Uncover the ...

This Greek warrior likely would have been a very wealthy ... which he sent through Israel accompanied by a fleet of ancient ships. The pharaoh was heavily involved in military campaigns in the ...