The Thracians were famous warriors, hired as mercenaries by the ancient Greeks and Romans, also known for the legendary ...

Feluccas drifting down the River Nile, ancient wonders found in dusty temples, warm waters filled with tropical fish: Egypt ...

Book VI of the Histories is one of Herodotus' most varied books, beginning with the final collapse of the Ionian Revolt and moving on to the Athenian triumph at Marathon (490 BC); it also includes ...

Most travel on some kind of road everyday, but how did they get there? Here's the long and winding history of roads and ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

Transactions of the American Philological Association (1869-1896) Vol. 8, 1877 On Herodotus's and Aeschylus's Accounts ... On Herodotus's and Aeschylus's Accounts of the Battle of Salamis This is the ...

Herodotus, Histories, Book 2, Chapter 96 For the first time, researchers working in a ship graveyard in the ancient Egyptian port city of Thonis-Heracleion have identified a vessel precisely ...

Herodotus, the Greek historian who wrote in the 5th century B.C., 500 years before Christ, is the earliest known chronicler and historian of the Egyptian Pyramid Age. By his accounts, the labor ...

With its oligarchic government, composed of the ephors, the Gerousia, and the two kings, Sparta’s government was an outlier ...

In the Histories, which could loosely be translated as 'Investigations' or 'Researches,' Herodotus tells how the Persian Empire began, grew, and then met defeat in Greece in his parents' generation.