In the shadow of Sarajevo, the wealthy allegedly paid to hunt innocent people and the sickening trend could be more ...

Beginning in the 14th century, when Greece was wracked by political and social struggles, monks began building a series of ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

North Dakota hides a $6 billion Cold War relic that lived for just one day. In 1970, workers began building the Stanley R.

A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

A lone skull discovered near the walls of an ancient fort highlights the Romans' brutal treatment of their conquered foes.

The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us ...

A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...

On the evening of June 10, 1953, Markley briefed his men from K Company, 15th Infantry Regiment before sending them to their posts. His roughly 150 soldiers would defend a hilltop outpost barely 400 ...

Seven skeletons found over a decade ago stashed inside a Croatian well didn’t immediately provide any clues toward the site’s ...