This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

There's a moment in ancient history that reads like a fever dream. The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometime around 40 CE, marched ...

A 2,200-year-old elephant bone found in Spain may finally prove Hannibal brought war elephants to the battlefield.

Military units don’t win wars by themselves, but they can transcend their roles on the battlefield to become something else entirely. Certain units have become the stuff of legends, serving as symbols ...

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[Editor’s Note: This Blast from the Past article was initially published in Army Logistician (the former title of Army Sustainment) in the July-August 1983 issue.] The Logistics Center’s historian ...

Cold, calculating, and ruthless adversaries do not hesitate. Hot, searing shrapnel and bullets do not discriminate. War is the most ruthless, utilitarian endeavor in humanity: either you are ready, or ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Army and Navy squared off Thursday, not in football, but in cooking at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. During the 2026 Army-Navy Cookoff, chefs from each side used ...

Long before cats became internet icons or household companions, they earned their place by solving a very practical problem. Around 2,000 years ago, the Roman military relied on cats to keep rats out ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cat sits on ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus in present day Izmir, Turkey. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ephesus ...

TORRINGTON - Watertown football coach Shawn Stanco said if his team was going to kick off to begin The Battle for the Helmet game against Torrington, he was going onside kick. Instead, the Raiders ...