Historian Dr. Roel Konijnendijk analyzes scenes from Oliver Stone’s critically-panned epic, Alexander, finding it ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have evidence that they believe proves an ancient biblical battle took place at a site known as ‘Armageddon’. Megiddo is also said to be the location where the Battle of ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location. The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Roel Konijnendijk teaches ancient history at Lincoln College, Oxford University. He rates 10 battle scenes in movies and television for realism. He discusses the ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location. The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian ...

Bannockburn. If there is a fact every Scot knows, it is who won the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314; although it did not bring outright victory in the war, which lay 14 years in the future and would ...