'This mystery exercise, used by wrestlers like Milo and gladiators like Spartacus, was ditch digging. Digging with a shovel ...

History professors and warfare experts rate the realism of "300," "Braveheart," "House of the Dragon," and other media.

The first smiths worked with copper and gold. Only when tin came to be added routinely to copper to make bronze did metal ...

This revealed that tin ingots from three ancient shipwrecks discovered off the coast of Israel and one shipwreck found off ...

Tin was the critical mineral of the ancient world. It was essential to alloy with copper to make bronze, which for many centuries was the preferred ...

Ten years ago, during the Armenian genocide's centenary mass, Pope Francis acknowledged it as the "first genocide of the ...

Sculptures are first-century Roman copies of Greek originals ... having conquered nearly all of classical Greece, built his monumental palace in the fourth century B.C. For too long, Philip ...

No Carthaginian sources of any kind have survived, and the accounts by the Greek historian Polybius ... been guesswork based on readings of the classical texts.” He believes that he and his ...

My words appear to leave you cold; Poor babes, I will not be your scolder: Reflect, the Devil, he is old, To understand him, ...

While other Greek city-states like Athens prized eloquence and debate ... When King Xerxes of Persia demanded that the Spartans surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas gave ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in the long pageant ... cultural ramifications and the influence that they exerted on the literature of the classical age. The foundation of the ...