First introduced in the Olympic Games in 648 BCE, pankration had minimal rules, allowing fighters to employ a wide array of ...

History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...

This essay is part of Companion Fare, a series of personal stories about traveling with loved ones.

For the Spartans, hair combing before the battle displayed their readiness to face death with calm and courage, an act meant ...

Evidence show that confession might actually have an origin in the pre-Christian religious customs of ancient Greece.

Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese in Greece, Sparta was a warrior society where males aged seven ...

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the dawn of an "ancient Hellenic civilisation" following the Greek Dark Ages.

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...

The best victory isn’t the loudest or most violent—it’s the one that makes your opponent run for the hills. Psychological ...