One area in which Archimedes excelled was in the design and construction of great war machines. By...
Warfare
From simple, organized Greek farmers to a powerful, flexible army. By Ian Joseph BA Cultural Anthropology, The University...
The battle marked the end of the internal conflict in the Roman Empire and the solidification of...
Figure 1: Greek Colonization of western Asia Minor / Image by Alexikoua, Wikimedia Commons The development of...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during the long-range strategic ballistic rocket test launch. KCNA via Reuters...
An almost life-size terracotta Aztec Eagle Warrior, one of the elite warrior groups in the Aztec military. 13-15th century...
Examining the available evidence for the use of horses and armor for them in medieval Islam warfare, with...
1904 reunion of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade / Wikimedia Commons A misinterpreted order, near...
 A brief historical context of Xenophon’s Anabasis By Ian Joseph BA Cultural Anthropology, The University of Chicago...
April 1562, The Timucua, an indigenous tribe in Florida, shoot burning arrows into the village of a...
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, recent site of gunpowder factory. / Photo by Cheungkkanthony, Wikimedia Commons Gunpowder was...
This elaborate set of ritual bronzes, consisting of an altar table and thirteen wine vessels, illustrates the...
Replica of the original Fat Man bomb. “Fat Man” was the codename for the atomic bomb that...
An unhealed gash on the forehead suggests that the man died a violent death, perhaps in battle....
A 1540s depiction of a judicial combat in Augsburg in 1409, between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and...
Brysa Hill ruins / Creative Commons Genocide is often viewed as a particular feature of our own...
Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a...
A knight fighting a dragon, 15th-century woodcut / Rauner Special Collections Library, Wikimedia Commons The emergence of...
“Every cent that goes to support the defense industry and war (or warlike activities, like air strikes)...
Statue of Themistocles in Piraeus, Greece By David Van Dyk / 08.17.2016 “My boy, you will be...
A detail from the frieze of the Treasury of the Siphians at Delphi depicting the Gods fighting...
Image by Ancient Origins, Wikimedia Commons Ultimately, there is only one warrior culture. Its evolution and transformation...
Relief scene of Roman legionaries marching, from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, 2nd century CE...
The battle of Leuctra was fought in 371 BCE and represents a turning point in Greek history....
This mosaic pavement dates to the first or second century ad and depicts a group of soldiers in...
The Death of Patroclus – Illustration from page 265 of ‘The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Mr...
Battle of Rocroi, 1643, attributed to Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau / Wikimedia Commons During the period of 1524 until 1648,...
King Zhu of the Shang Dynasty Lights the Signal Beacons, a Perspective Picture / Museum of Fine...
By Taylor Downing / 05.27.2018 Historian On November 9th 1983, the leadership of the Soviet Union nearly...
Château de Coussac-Bonneval / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Virginia H. Aksan / 01.14.2011 Professor Emeritus of History...