The bone analysis revealed clear signs of healing around the embedded arrowhead. Dense bone tissue had begun forming around the foreign object, indicating the warrior survived the initial trauma and ...

A team of researchers led by Francesc Marginedas, of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, discovered the dismembered remains of 111 humans at the site in Sierra de ...

A concise primer on the tactics armies use from antiquity to the present — ambush, flanking, siege, pincer, guerrilla, combined arms, air superiority, electronic and cyber warfare — what each aims to ...

Historian Roel Konijnendijk reviews ancient warfare scenes and battle tactics in movies and TV shows. He looks at the naval battle and gladiator fights depicted in "Gladiator II," starring Paul Mescal ...

The nature of war -- Generalship -- pt. 1. Ancient warfare: War in earliest times. The ancient Greeks. The expansion of Rome. The Roman defensive and the Barbarian migrations -- pt. 2. Medieval ...

Within seconds of the bellowing call, the Quiet Green transformed into an ancient Egyptian battleground. Chariots were drawn, spears were stabbed and arrows were shot. Hordes of “soldiers” ...

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

Prof. Jones-Bley (Indo-European Studies, UCLA), gives us a rather different look at the history of women as warriors than other recent books on the subject. Her main point, well made, is that women ...

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence ...

Researchers say the discoveries are “inconsistent with ritual or survival scenarios.” A team of researchers led by Francesc Marginedas, of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social ...