Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became legendary in history.

As Christopher Nolan films his adaptation of The Odyssey, another recent adaptation is topping the charts on Paramount+.

Over 2,300 years have passed since the death of Alexander the Great, but he remains one of the most famous historical figures ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

Spartan boys were taken from their families at age 7—not to play, but to be forged into warriors. This is the story of the agoge, Sparta’s unforgiving system of military training.

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

→Soldier unearths 2,600-year-old burial site, Greek artifacts in Ukraine →Local's theory about ancient standing stone in UK forest turns out to be true The unique gymnasium portion of the site ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

They dug up the remains of potentially 150 males aged between 20 and 30 years, hinting that a “catastrophic event in a military context” happening at the site at the end of the first century A ...

The woman’s thigh bones also showed pronounced gluteal muscles, which researchers believe are possibly the result of military training like horseback ... may have inspired the Amazons depicted in ...