Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military ...

Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s “Iliad” provides the plot for the movie “Troy,” while ...

Greek historians like Herodotus are famous for writing down some of the first-ever Western historical records and waxing poetic about the skirmishes and wars waged throughout Ancient Greece. But just ...

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 268. Maps, tables., diagr., chron., notes, biblio., index. $99.99. ISBN: 1108499503 Why Did Ancient ...

Remains of an ancient military vessel discovered off the coast of Alexandria CAIRO (Reuters) - Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion ...

The Parthenians, illegitimate children of Sparta's women born during war, became the founders of the esteemed Greek colony of ...

Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion—once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean—and a funerary complex illustrating the presence ...