Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was never heard from again ... until today. A pair of Italian archaeologists have uncovered ...
One of the most memorable images by Greek historian Herodotus depicts Persian King Xerxes ordering the sea to be punished ...
In 480 BC at Thermopylae, a small Greek coalition, which included 300 Spartans, fought against an invading Persian army. Spoiler alert: The Spartans lost. But the valor shown in temporarily holding ...
A quick search of the internet can reveal many complex puzzles that are yet to be solved. The Lost Army of Cambyses was a Persian army consisting of 50,000 men who are alleged to have vanished into ...
A vastly outnumbered Greek force faces off against the invading Persian army in a fight to the death that still resonates today. There are few more captivating tropes in storytelling than the doomed ...
Fact or Fiction: The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) between Greeks and Persians is known for two things: an utter Greek defeat leading to the "Persian Destruction of Athens" and arguably the most ...
At the start of the fifth century B.C., the Persian empire was the world's paramount power, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to North Africa to the Indian subcontinent. But the Persian emperor, ...
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