several hundred Marylanders made an epic stand resembling that of the 300 ancient Spartans at Thermopylae. The Marylanders saved Washington’s Army — and, perhaps, the United States.

An S-300 PMU-1 anti-aircraft missile launches during a Greek army military exercise near Chania on ... [+] the island of Crete on December 13, 2013. Greece is the first NATO country to try the ...

Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western ...

By the spring of 480 Xerxes' army had ... contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that ...

but as the Greek historian Thucydides explains, “to the music of many ute-players, a standing institution in their army, which has nothing to do with religion, but is meant to make them advance ...

Stefanos Kasselakis, a businessman who burst into Greek politics over a year ago, says he’s leaving left-wing Syriza, the ...

Explore Antiochus III's campaigns, from battling revolts in Media and Persia to his epic conquests during the Fourth Syrian ...

At a time when the passage of time was dictated by the movement of the sun and the seasons, the introduction of “clock time” ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began ... Games and they fought off the invading Persian army. This period is known by historians as the ...

Every November 11, Poland celebrates its liberation from Prussian, Russian, and Austrian occupation. But in Poznan, home to U ...

The Sui blockchain has launched a hub in Dubai which will act as an incubator for blockchain developers and entrepreneurs, one of its founding developers told CoinDesk in an interview.