Before walls were breached or cities burned, it was the watchtowers that saw danger first - and often decided who lived or died. 13 greatest movie lines you didn’t know were improvised Britain ...

The only change that progress has brought is that the ancient weapons have been replaced by more sophisticated ones. However, some of our ancestors proved to be very sophisticated in warfare ...

The Temple of Athena Polias in Priene, an ancient Greek city at the base of Mycale’s escarpment, the battleground where Greeks and Persians clashed in history. Credit: Flickr / Egisto Sani CC BY-NC-SA ...