The Battle of Thermopylae and the fight of the 300 Spartans under the leadership of king Leonidas is a magnificent moment in ...

In 480 B.C., during the Greco-Persian wars, and over a century before the time of Mausolus, Queen Artemisia I of Caria joined the army of King Xerxes I with her small fleet of ships during Per ...

In early June of 480 B.C., a mighty Persian army crossed the Dardanelles strait on two pontoon bridges to continue a brutal advance into Greece. Led by the great king Xerxes, the troops were bound ...

Their king, Xerxes, was bearded and sat on a throne high above the battle; he wasn't, as in the movie, bald and sexually ambiguous, and he didn't prance around the killing field.

In that battle, Artemisia fought alongside the Persian King Xerxes. Her name is derived from the Greek goddess Artemis, who presided over the creatures in the wild.