Battle of Marathon

The Soros, the burial mound on the plain of Marathon, Greece. After the battle in 490 BC the Athenians buried the 192 hoplites who fell right here, on the field where they fought. The grassy mound still stands about 10 meters high on flat farmland, and from its foot you look across the plain where the Persian army was drawn up. Few places let you stand this close to a battle fought two and a half thousand years ago.