Legendary Battle of Himera was triumph of Greek heroism, kind of
Genomic look at remains suggests victorious army got hand from substantial number of foreign mercenaries.
Source: harvard.edu
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Genomic look at remains suggests victorious army got hand from substantial number of foreign mercenaries.
New research finds that many soldiers who fought in the fifth-century B.C.E. battles at Himera were born outside of the empire
DNA from a 2,500-year-old battlefield in Sicily reveals that mercenary soldiers were common, if not the Homeric ideal.
It turns out the Greeks used mercenaries.