Manuscript Reveals Battle Between Greeks and Goths at Thermopylae

Manuscript Reveals Battle Between Greeks and Goths at Thermopylae

An ancient inscription indicates that in 262 AD there was a battle at Thermopylae between the Greeks and the Goths. Image: The site of Thermopylae. Credit: Fkerasar/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 An ancient manuscript that has recently come to light indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae between the Greeks and the Goths. In 2007, Jana Grusková, PhD, of Masaryk University, discovered a manuscript fragment containing a p…