Nature Changes Site of History's Most Famous Last Stand: Bang Go Greece's Defences on the Looney Front
Category: TRAVEL
The sea once hugged this pass so closely that a few thousand Greeks could hold off 1.7 million Persians, if the ancient historian Herodotus is to be believed, in the 300-foot wide defile where numerical superiority was useless.
By Mike Arkus, ContributorJournalist, 2014-06-09