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“I find it difficult in these final hours to accept my fate. I lie here in my tent haunted by memories of battles lost,” wrote a student, leader of defeated warriors.

King Leonidas and the 300 Spartan warriors who remained by his side at the Battle of Thermopylae knew they were facing imminent doom; why did they stay?

A fifth century bronze urn containing bones lovingly wrapped in silk, may be that of Alcibiades, Athens’ bad boy statesman who finally came home?

Archaeologists have unearthed a silver medallion depicting the Greek goddess Aphrodite in a 2,100-year-old grave on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea. Russian archaeologists have unearthed an intricately detailed silver medallion of the...

Attending an annual performance at the famous Ancient Theatre at Epidavros, the inspiration for our own amphitheatre at Fairfield in Melbourne.

В июле и августе 2021 года граждане России купили более 800 квартир и домов в Турции. Как пишет Forbes , преимущественно на побережье. Для сравнения: за весь 2020 год россиянами было приобретено только 3100 объектов недвижимости...

No Navy could stand up against the Americans at the conclusion of WWII.

Spartan General Pausanias Lived in Society Woven Around Honor Alone The “Death of Pausanias,” Credit: Cassell’s Illustrated Universal History, 1882/Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain Known as The Regent, Spartan general Pausanias lived a life which encapsulated the harsh realities of the Ancient Greek city state — a nephew of the great Leonidas, he ended up being killed by his own people for allegedly betraying Sparta. He was born to his high-ranking father Cleombrotus and mother Theano a...