Scholars have identified interesting parallels between the military alliances of NATO and the ancient Athenian-led Delian League.

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It ...

In September of the year 490, the Persian forces landed at the sandy harbour of Marathon with an invasion force of 600 ships, 20,000 or more foot soldiers, and 800 cavalry. Also with them was the ...

Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon in 490 BC. Now, a decade later, he had spared no ...

The Celtic invasion of Greece and Macedonia in 280-79 BCE is less famous than the Persian Wars. This assault from the West in ...

dwarfing even Xerxes’s Persian invasion of Greece in 480 B.C. Brilliant planning, overwhelming naval support, air superiority, and high morale ensured the successful landing of 160,000 troops on ...

One of the stories of greatest last stands is of Shaitan Singh, who saved Arunachal Pradesh from the Chinese. He killed 300 Chinese soldiers during this battle, which took place on November 18 ...

This Saint was from the city of Bythlaba and was of noble birth; he was the closest and most honoured friend of Isdiger (or Yazdegerd) I, King of Persia (reigned 399-420). Though a Christian from his ...

In Greek myth, Cronus (the father ... In the fourth century BCE, there was Bagoas, a Persian court eunuch who is sometimes ...

These are all Greek translations of their Persian names. Blessed is the earth that drank your blood, O prizewinners of the Lord, and holy are the tabernacles that received your spirit; for in the ...

John Stuart Mill once wrote that the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., during the first Persian invasion of Greece, was “even as an event in British history . . . more important than the Battle of ...