George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

The blood and guts are firmly off-stage, like the violence of a Greek tragedy, yet the images capture the chaos and brutality ...

Archaeologists in Vienna discover a mass grave of Roman soldiers dating back 2,000 years, victims of a brutal defeat against ...

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

An analysis of other items found in the grave, including an iron dagger, lance points, scale armor and ... professional Roman soldiers, according to David Potter, a professor of Greek and Roman ...

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...

The Holy Roman Empire 1504, Götz von Berlichingen was the youngest son of a Swabian noble. Inheriting nothing apart from a military education and a suit of armor. He joined the army as a Knight ...

It was created in the 7th century BC - It was found in the mud in 1914, then disappeared, ending up in the Metropolitan ...

as it could easily be reforged into weapons and armour in times of war or shortage. As a result, many Greek statues disappeared, to be replaced by Roman replicas made of marble. Although these ...

Ancient Roman and Greek antiquities can offer up comparative ... Redmond Finer of Peter Finer (London) is a dealer in arms and armour from the Bronze Age to the 19th century.