Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the Hellenistic world.

The ancient Greeks used a myriad of weapons on the battlefield, including spears, swords, and pikes in a variety of shapes ...

Homer’s Odyssey is one of the greatest works of ancient Greek epic poetry, telling the incredible journey of Odysseus as he ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area with ...

From the industrial fringes of Thessaloniki, the metropolis of layered Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman ghosts, I launched southward. The city’s endurance, symbolized by the White Tower, felt like a ...

Archaeologists recently discovered a massive 2,000-year-old stone basin in ancient Gabii, Italy, revealing early Roman public architecture from Rome's powerful rival city.

Polls and psychological studies repeatedly show that over the last 10 to 15 years, women have tended to like men with a dark ...

Prepare to have your perception of the past completely shaken! From what the Roman emperors wore to how pirates actually ...

Monty — A French name meaning "mountain," Monty would be perfect for your little adventurer. Flint — Meaning “hard, grey stone” or “stream,” Flint is associated with strength, resilience and a ...

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

Advocates of these end-of-the-world theories say we could be experiencing the onset of what the Bible and Christianity refer ...

At the archaeological site of Vergina, the ancient Aigai and first capital of Macedonia, archaeologists unearthed several ...