Thousands of years ago, one of these historic battles took place around the modern-day Egadi Islands of Sicily, leaving behind the wreckage of war. The Battle of the Egadi Islands (or Aegates ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire. This ...

Dating to the fifth or sixth century B.C.E., the vessel could provide new insights into the relationship between the ancient ...

A war game based around the invasion of Sicily in 1943. By July 1943, the tides of war had turned on the Germans. Tunsia fell in May leaving no Axis territory in North Africa. On July 5th ...

Rescue operations continue into their second day for those still missing after the Bayesian yacht sank off the coast of Sicily Rescue teams searching the luxury yacht off the coast of Italy for ...

With a foothold in Sicily the Athenians would also gain a tactically advantageous position from which to attack Sparta, if war broke out between the two great powers once more. Setting off with a ...

By convincing the Germans that the Allies planned to attack Greece instead of Sicily, they helped change the course of World War Two. Ben Macintyre reveals the incredible story of the dead body ...