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 to bribe-taking and happy to betray friends and allies. In that ...

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 ...

The city state of Sparta, in many respects, was different from Athens. Geographically it was situated in a mountainous area which isolated it from other cities. The state was founded in 10th century ...

Mystras, travel Mystras, Sparta: Greece’s Byzantine Ghost City Above the Plain 30.05.2026 - 05:44:14 | ad-hoc-news.de Walk through the silent streets of Mystras above Sparta in Griechenland, where ...

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 ...