Israeli archeologists may have discovered the first-ever tomb of a woman known as a "hetaira" to Alexander the Great's army in Ancient Greece. A hetaira, or courtesan, was an "esteemed escort," said ...

Step inside the epic Battle of Thermopylae and discover how 300 Spartans held off the mighty Persian Empire. Uncover the real ...

AI reconstruction of Greek and Karian soldiers moving through an Egyptian marketplace. Credit: GR Archive. Greek soldiers who took part in war during the archaic period in the Med ...

Often, when we think about antiquity and ancient military technologies, we fall into the usual view of ancient warfare. You might picture phalanxes of Greek spearmen crashing into one another. The ...

Peter Hunt, associate professor and chair of classics, demonstrates a mock blood sacrifice during a spear-and-formation exercise in his Alexander the Great and the Rise of Macedonia class. Photo by ...

The Spartans raised their children to be tough and stoic servants of the state. Boys were sent to train as soldiers from a ...

Modern military volunteers donned replicas of ancient Greek armour and engaged in exercises inspired by Homer’s epic poem The Iliad. The demonstration shows how elite Bronze Age warriors could have ...