The Persian army was said by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus to number an improbable 1.75 million. The true figure is unknown, but Xerxes’ army was many times larger than that of the Greeks. 4 ...

Before there was an Alamo – or an Agincourt, or an Iwo Jima – there was the Battle of Thermopylae, ancient Greece’s official entry in the “all-time great last stands” sweepstakes. From a ...

VOUVALIDIS et al. (2010): Palaeogeographical reconstruction of the battle terrain in Ancient Thermopylae, Greece. Geodinamica Acta 23(5-6): 241-253 Editorial Standards Reprints & Permissions ...

In 480 BCE, the Persian army defeated the Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae and invaded parts of Greece. When all seemed lost, a young Athenian politician named Themistocles proposed an ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

The goths were advancing on the Roman Empire around 250 AD when they were repelled at Thessalonica, according to the fragments that were discovered in an Austrian museum.

Golden Dawn draws much of that love from fear. Greece is now the main entry point for at least 80% of the E.U.’s un-documented migrants. Frontex, the E.U. border-patrolling agency, estimates ...