Ancient Greek pottery

Ancient Greece

A trieme is rowed towards a naval battle in a scene depicting the battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC

The ancient Greeks at war: hoplites, the phalanx and the greatest battles

Ancient Greek statesman Solon sits on a throne, with a subject petitioning him

Who’s who in ancient Greece? Meet 14 influential ancient Greeks

A stone statue of Achilles

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Achilles Heel’?

An ancient Greek vase depicts animal sacrifice of a cow by two women

Your guide to Ancient Greece: everything you wanted to know

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

The Byzantines and a flamethrower

General ancient history

Q&AWhat was Greek fire?

Olympic history: everything you wanted to know.

Belgium and the Netherlands compete in a tug of war at the Antwerp Olympic

Olympic oddballs: 5 unusual Olympic sports from the past.

A depiction of athletes in the torch race, ancient Olympics

What were the ancient Olympics like? Take a visit to the Games of 436 BC

Alexander the Great on his horse, Bucephalus

Bucephalus: why is Alexander the Great's horse famous?

The 'Alexander Mosaic' showing Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great: all you need to know about the empire builder and military genius

Illustration of Despite being outnumbered, the Greeks gained vital supremacy at sea over the Persians at the battle of Salamis in 480 BC

The Peloponnesian War: Athens fights Sparta for dominance in ancient Greece

The Trojan Horse – seen in the 2004 film Troy

How much of the legend of Troy is real?

Solon, an Athenian statesman (left) laid the foundations for democracy

Your guide to...the history of democracy

Sparta.

The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

Timeline: the evolution of ancient empires.

The Parnethon, Athens

How to build a democracy (Athenian-style).

Athenian red-figure cup showing a seated man with a naked boy in the inside tondo, 470 BC

What was pederasty in ancient Greece?

Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

General ancient history

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: what were they, and what happened to them?

Ancient Greece: everything you wanted to know.

Alexander the Great

Where is Alexander the Great buried? And other questions about his death…

York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

A brief history of the English rose

Illustration of Alexander the Great marching to war (Illustration by Sue Gent_

What if…Alexander the Great had lived longer?.

Bottle of 'love potion'

General ancient history

Spanish fly, holy bread and mashed worms: history's weirdest aphrodisiacs and love potions

Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

The curious case of Lord Lucan + 10 other mysterious disappearances from history.

A sculpture dedicated to King Leonidas of the Spartans in Thermopylae, Greece. (Photo by iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AWere there really only 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae?

Medieval trepanning

General prehistory

Q&AWhat is trepanning?

The Venus de Milo sculpture

Q&AWhen was the Venus de Milo found?

The ancient Greek physician Dioscorides

General ancient history

Happy plants and laughing weeds: how people of the ancient world used – and abused – drugs

Wrestlers in ancient Greece

Q&AHow did ancient athletes prepare for the Olympics?