It ruled the skies and rewrote naval warfare—the flying machine built to hunt and sink battleships. Fast, deadly, and precise, this aerial legend earned its name by turning naval dominance upside down ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from the wealthy middling ranks of society, particularly the farmers. They wore bronze armor breastplates ...

The Chigi olpe is considered to be the earliest known representation of hoplite phalanxes. Credit: ArchaiOptix / Wikimedia Commons The upper register, painted in black, white, and two shades of brown ...

Soon after dawn the next day the Athenians advanced 'at the double', running in their heavy hoplite armor against Persian bowmen, whose arrows became increasingly effective within the last two ...