Greek naval infantry conducted combat exercises in armor replicas from 3,500 years ago. This helped resolve a 64-year-old dispute among archaeologists. Scientists now understand the role ancient ...

Modern marines have tested out ancient Greek body armor in an 11-hour simulation of Bronze Age combat and found it to be battle-worthy. The experiment, for a study published in the open-access ...

Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

Ionian Greek conscripts, drafted into the Persian ... Athenians advanced 'at the double', running in their heavy hoplite armor against Persian bowmen, whose arrows became increasingly effective ...