History remembers the broad strokes of ancient warfare. We’ll never forget things like gunpowder, the phalanx, and war elephants. This is understandable, as these drive the imagination and help steer ...

Ancient warfare historians review ancient warfare scenes and battle tactics in movies and TV shows. Ancient warfare expert Roel Konijnendijk rates battle tactics such as the naval battle and gladiator ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Roel Konijnendijk teaches ancient history at Lincoln College, Oxford University. He rates 10 battle scenes in movies and television for realism. He discusses the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

What Held Ancient Armies Together? Following an introduction, the nine papers in this collection, all by well-regarded scholars, address different ways in which cohesion could develop, uniting the ...

When archaeologists in the 1960s unearthed a 13,400-year-old cemetery at Jebel Sahaba in Sudan, it looked like they’d stumbled across the aftermath of a large-scale battle fought during the ...

Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s ...