Ahram Online reports that remnants of a fortified city inhabited in the fourth century A.D. have been uncovered at the Ain El ...
The image of Sparta that has come down to us is that of a closed, militarized, and extremely rigid society, where only ...
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The sacred pass of Thermopylae, Sparta, Persian invasion, and the birth of Pan-Hellenic identity
In the summer of 480 BC, a landscape already steeped in myth and memory became the stage for one of antiquity's most defining ...
For 1,600 years, a once-thriving frontier settlement lay buried beneath Egypt's western desert. Once governed by Byzantine ...
Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...
The fourth-century residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by Egypt on ...
At the Battle of Sepeia in 494 BC, Sparta’s King Cleomenes burned Argos’ Sacred Grove, killing 6,000 soldiers in a ruthless ...
Arta is a city in northwestern Greece that barely preserves the typical archaeological remains of Antiquity and, instead, does treasure heritage from the Byzantine period: only traces remain of the ...
The casting of a Black actress as Helen of Troy has ignited fierce controversy in Greece. Some lament what they see as ...
In the U.S. military (and American law enforcement), few cultures are as mythologized, idealized, or as idolized as the ...
Matt Simonton shows how the “rule of the few” roiled the Greek world, and how democracy triumphed—and can do so again.
An earthquake in Sparta in the year 464 BCE started a series of events which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War.
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