In 1941, Nazi troops staged a propaganda stunt at Thermopylae to falsely claim the martial legacy of Ancient Sparta for the ...

A new book chronicles the 16-plus battles that took place in the Greek pass between the ancient era and World War II Myke Cole and Michael Livingston The story of the successful mission, code-named ...

Step inside the epic Battle of Thermopylae and discover how 300 Spartans held off the mighty Persian Empire. Uncover the real ...

The Thermopylae, the "hot gates" or also "gates of fire," is a mountain pass at the foot of Mount Kallidromo in modern Greece where legend tells that King Leonidas and 300 of his Spartan warriors ...

In the summer of 480 BC, a sacred and narrow corridor of land became the stage for one of antiquity's most defining confrontations, as a handful of defiant Greek city-states faced the vast might of ...

A vastly outnumbered Greek force faces off against the invading Persian army in a fight to the death that still resonates today. There are few more captivating tropes in storytelling than the doomed ...

Ancient Sparta’s influence is all around us, providing a litany of patron saints for spectacular last stands. There’s a word for this mania in Western cultures: laconophilia, taken from Laconia, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A.J. Clark knows how valuable the right intelligence tools can be. While working as an Air Force intelligence analyst from 1998 to 2002, Clark realized that the ability to link ...

The sci-fi series stars Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief, Spartan-117, and Natascha McElhone (Californication) as Dr. Halsey, who also both serve as producers this season. Additional returning cast ...

Pieces of an ancient Greek text that lay undiscovered in an Austrian museum have revealed a previously unknown Roman battle against invading goths. The goths were advancing on the Roman Empire around ...