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 ...
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 ...
Archaeologists uncovered the eight-foot-tall, six-ton monument to one of Egypt's greatest rulers miles away from its original ...
Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...
Archaeologists have unearthed fourth-century quarters in Egypt, revealing residential and religious structures, including a ...
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 Peloponnesian War, his magisterial opus on Athens’ doomed decades-long conflict with Sparta in the fifth century BC, includes the famous line, “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what ...
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 ...