Antiquity

Sparta was probably the most famous military power of Ancient Greece. And yet Alexander the Great never conquered Sparta, even though Sparta waged war against him and got badly defeated…

The Roman measurements and units did not follow a decimal system. Instead, the Romans based length measurements on the proportions of the human body. The units for weight and volume…

Gladiators are usually among the first things we think of when we hear about ancient Rome. But our imagination of gladiatorial combat (and the weapons that Gladiators used) is often…