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

When Ridley Scott announced a sequel to a great epic classic after 24 years, expectations were understandably high. With the ...

In recent decades archaeologists in Shaanxi, China, have found artefacts evidencing new civilizations, many are on show at ...

Bite marks discovered on the skeleton of a gladiator in Roman-era England suggest the man faced off with a lion in the arena, ...

I asked, “what should we do, when the leaders take us to ruin?” He said, “Wait.”  — Charles Eisenstein Democracy: yearning to ...

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.

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

Scientists believe the woman might have been a trained warrior, similar to the Amazon warrior women written about by the ancient Greeks. As reported by Forbes, the grave was found up in the highlands ...

Elon Musk has linked modern-day population decline to ancient Rome. The original post listed three reasons why people today are having fewer children: "Kids no longer earn — some stay in school till ...

If you know anything about ancient warrior cultures, than this next fact probably isn’t surprising. Just like in Samurai culture, Spartans were expected to kill themselves before surrendering. To give ...

Armed with spear and shield, Hoplites weren’t professional soldiers - they were citizens ready to defend their homeland at a moment’s notice. Here is every country working on trade deals with ...