When the ancient Greeks faced the Persians in the Battle of Artemisium, they set the tone for the Battle of Salamis.

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The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

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The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria during the week of March 21 marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

I spent yesterday watching a ton of paleontology content, including several that speculated about recent studies about ...