An inscription carved into a boulder high in the Almosi Gorge of Tajikistan’s Hissar Range has enabled philologists to decipher a writing system known as “the unknown script,” which was...
Classical Antiquity
Investigating political realities and military strategies across centuries of
Antiquity
The infiltration tactics, as known to the Allies, were based on surprise and effective cooperation between artillery, assaulting infantry, and assault groups. Two individuals were particularly associated with these tactics,...
The Festungs Pionier Bataillon units were the first to be equipped with hand grenades, wire cutters, flamethrowers, and protective shields because they were the only ones with experience in using...
The failure of the Soviet war machine is often compared to the strategic failure of the Americans in Vietnam. However, despite the apparent perception of defeat of a superpower by...
Many times in history, mention is made of the influence of Great Powers on smaller states regarding both external and internal politics, resulting in the adoption of a fatalistic attitude...
The institution of “sissitia”influenced, shaped, and molded the citizens who embraced it, serving as a model for imitation for several cities that adopted it.
After the defeat of Manfred at Benevento and the decapitation of the last of the Hohenstaufens, Conradin, in Naples on October 29, 1268, the Kingdom of Sicily had definitively been...
What would be the impressions of a Byzantine emperor after visiting ancient Greek ruins? Basileus (King, meaning the Emperor) Theodoros II Doukas Laskaris visited with his secretary Kostomyris and his...
At dawn on the rain-soaked Sunday of June 25, 1950, around 4:00 am, ten divisions of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), including three reserve divisions along with 150 Soviet-made T-34...
An amazing description of Constantinople, “the land of the Greeks,” as he called it, from Ibn Battuta (1304-1388) the Moroccan explorer and traveler of the 14th century who is considered...
An inscription carved into a boulder high in the Almosi Gorge of Tajikistan’s Hissar Range has enabled philologists to decipher a writing system known as “the unknown script,” which was...
The infiltration tactics, as known to the Allies, were based on surprise and effective cooperation between artillery, assaulting infantry, and assault groups. Two individuals were particularly associated with these tactics,...
The Festungs Pionier Bataillon units were the first to be equipped with hand grenades, wire cutters, flamethrowers, and protective shields because they were the only ones with experience in using...
The failure of the Soviet war machine is often compared to the strategic failure of the Americans in Vietnam. However, despite the apparent perception of defeat of a superpower by...
Many times in history, mention is made of the influence of Great Powers on smaller states regarding both external and internal politics, resulting in the adoption of a fatalistic attitude...
The institution of “sissitia”influenced, shaped, and molded the citizens who embraced it, serving as a model for imitation for several cities that adopted it.
After the defeat of Manfred at Benevento and the decapitation of the last of the Hohenstaufens, Conradin, in Naples on October 29, 1268, the Kingdom of Sicily had definitively been...
What would be the impressions of a Byzantine emperor after visiting ancient Greek ruins? Basileus (King, meaning the Emperor) Theodoros II Doukas Laskaris visited with his secretary Kostomyris and his...
At dawn on the rain-soaked Sunday of June 25, 1950, around 4:00 am, ten divisions of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), including three reserve divisions along with 150 Soviet-made T-34...
An amazing description of Constantinople, “the land of the Greeks,” as he called it, from Ibn Battuta (1304-1388) the Moroccan explorer and traveler of the 14th century who is considered...