Sparta’s entire culture centered on war. A lifelong dedication to military discipline, service, and precision gave this ...

Uncover the real story of Spartan warfare. We deconstruct the myths, revealing the brutal reality of ancient Greece's elite ...

Athens and Sparta signed a peace pact in 1996, nearly 2,400 years after the Peloponnesian War ended with Athens' surrender in 404 BC.

The Spartans weren’t a race of supermen as their 20th century totalitarian admirers imagined. They were cowardly, duplicitous, prone ...

What if Sparta attacked everyone? This hypothetical scenario imagines the ancient Greek city state abandoning its existing ...

The recent discovery of the ancient palace near Sparta might help archaeologists provide an insight into one of the most mysterious civilizations in Greek history. Greek Ministry of Culture A team of ...

ONE rainy June afternoon I found myself in Sparta. The modern Sparta is called a thriving town, and as a token of its thrift the good people were grading some of the principal streets, and it was hard ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace with important archaic inscriptions dating back to the Mycenaean Age, the culture ministry said Tuesday. The palace, likely ...