Doing isotope analysis of ancient teeth, a team of researchers from the University of Georgia has uncovered some Greek military secrets that you won’t find in history books, including the fact ...

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 ...

Why Did Ancient Kings Hire Greek Mercenaries? By examining the role of Greek mercenaries in the service of Persia and Egypt from the end of the Peloponnesian War to the conquests of Alexander, Prof.

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 ...

A modern-age bronze statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena has become a symbol of the city of Guadalajara in western ...

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 published in the open-access ...

Isotopic evidence for geographic heterogeneity in Ancient Greek military forces. PLOS ONE, 2021; 16 (5): e0248803 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248803 ...

The tiny cuts and grooves that decorate some ancient human artifacts are not just pretty accidents, according to some archaeologists. They could be early signs of creativity and symbolic thinking ...

Long before those rules were invented, symbols representing basic concepts were etched, drawn – or in this case printed – onto a material to share simple ideas, which over time may have become ...