Echetlus was an ancient Greek phantom warrior who fought in the Battle of Marathon and helped defeat the Persians but then disappeared.

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

Scientists and modern soldiers tested a replica of the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor in a hands-on experiment and found it was functional, a study said. Photo from Andreas Flouris and Marija Marković, ...

A renowned Mycenaean suit of armor, long debated by historians, was tested and found to be suitable for extended combat. This study was led by Andreas Flouris of the University of Thessaly, Greece, ...