A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at ...

This area occupied a border region between the Persian and Athenian spheres of influence. [Related: These ‘fake’ ancient Roman coins might actually be real.] Thucydides recounted that between ...

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