An curved arrow pointing right. Roel Konijnendijk teaches ancient history at Lincoln College, Oxford University. He rates 10 battle scenes in movies and television for realism. He discusses the ...

How did Carthage manage to rival Rome for centuries? Could its legendary harbour have been the key to its power? Join us as ...

Historian Roel Konijnendijk reviews ancient warfare scenes and battle tactics in movies and TV shows. He looks at the naval battle and gladiator fights depicted in "Gladiator II," starring Paul ...

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Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... fifth century B.C.— especially their heroic stand at the critical Battle of Thermopylae in 480—the Persians may well have conquered Greece.

One of the great things about computer games is that anything is possible – except women who fight, apparently.

Even though their rulers and religion has changed over time, you can still see glimpses of the ancient Egyptian civilisations today. Colour in your own battle scene. documentColour in your own ...

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...

Vandals spray-painted the Hillel building at San Francisco State University with a slogan referencing an ancient battle in which Muslim troops defeated a group of Jewish fighters. The ...