From Pelennor Fields to the Fall of Gondolin, these are the most exciting battles in J.R.R. Tolkien's expanded universe, ...

In a historic first, archeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb have found a fragment of Homer's poem The Iliad ...

What better way to end the school year than with an exuberant, powerful festival? That’s what the University of Wyoming ...

Today, most people know the word as a synonym for "destroy." But fewer realize its origins — or that it's come to mean ...

Centuries after the last Spartan fell at the Hot Gates, the legend of the 300 continued to shape the ancient world, invoked by Alexander the Great, immortalized by Herodotus, and visited by Roman ...

An ancient inscription indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae between the Greeks and the Goths.

The "harbor" of the Strait of Gibraltar is the final resting place for shipwrecks from Ancient Rome, the Medieval era and ...

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

Italian archaeologists' analysis of battle damage marks on the walls of Pompeii using 3D scanners feels a bit like an episode ...

Take up the whole armor of God,’ says Ephesians 6:13, ‘so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done ...

The fall of the Roman Empire was not caused by a single event. Instead, it was the result of many crises that unfolded over centuries. Among the most important were a series of devastating military ...