ancient warfare

Recently I have been reading alot of historical accounts of battles taking place in the ancient world. One of the things that strikes me is the size of the armies that fought. During Xeres invasion of Greece he had an army of between a million and four million depending on the source. Alaxander...

It is often said that African prehistory and antiquity, with the exception of Egypt, "went straight from the Neolithic to the Iron Age". I'm not an expert in this field (something I regret), and newer finds and research might invalidate this long-held claim, but I nevertheless have interest in...