"Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World"

[hoplite14gr]

The archaological evidence supports the last stand story. People are still discovering arrow heads and tourists got into trouble for trying to get a "lucky find" as souvenir. The "Persian arrows obscurring the sun" are still found.
The stores in the Archeological Meuseum in Athens are still full of uncataloged material from the area. Plus more staf found in in 1960 is still locked in Lamia Archeological Meuseum
The place was used to stop invaders in 480 B.C. 279 B.C. 191 B.C 1204 A.D. 1232 A.D. It was crossed in 2 columns from both passes by the Turks in
1462 A.D. It succesfully aided stopping a turkic incursion 1866 A.D. and it was overrun by the Leibstandarte in April 1941 again from Kallidromo capturing 80% of BEF heavy weapons with their crews.
If you want to fight on a strong point blocking the root to south Greece, this IS the place.
Leonidas can be accused for poor reconaisance or poor estimation of the threat but to dny that he fought is absurd!
Kind regards