Any fan of Ancient Greece ought to check this battle for authenticity because Alexander nailed it in that department. Troy stars Brad Pitt as the Greek hero Achilles during the Trojan War in what ...

Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for ...

Fragments of an ancient Greek text telling of an invasion of Greece by the Goths during the third century A.D. have been discovered in the Austrian National Library. The text includes a battle ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is ... the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC. In battle, hoplites fought as a team. They lined up in ranks and locked their ...

A team of researchers were inspired by a “chance dinner-table conversation” and decided to test a replica of the ancient Greek armor by simulating a Late Bronze Age battle, according to a ...

The exhibit throws the spotlight on what was in effect the last of the truly ancient Greek battles. That is because Philip II’s triumph established the Macedonians as the dominant power in Greece and ...

From the sleek, deadly triremes to the colossal tessarakonteres, ancient Greek ships inspired modern ship design.

(How do we know what ancient Greek warriors wore for battle? It's in 'The Iliad.') The trireme, master of the seasThe trireme was the warship of choice in classical Greece. It was later used ...

The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...

Languages: English, Spanish Modern marines have tested out ancient Greek body armor in an 11-hour simulation of Bronze Age combat and found it to be battle-worthy. The experiment, for a study ...