Specials- The Immortals

The movie 300 had described a special unit of the Persian Army as THE IMMORTALS.... Zack Snyder, the director had portrayed them as Ninja- like army of NON- HUMANS... In fact , in the real battle of Thermopylae also had a special army of Persians known as the Immortals.... The name Immortals is derived from an interesting property of the unit.... The Immortals of the Persian army of the Battle of Thermopylae had 10,000 members, mainly infantry..... Any one member killed or injured was immediately replaced by a new member from the general unit behind them during battle... This led to their number ALWAYS being maintained at 10,000..... Thus the name IMMORTALS.....