Today, the modern-day city of Sparta stands near the ancient ruins, having a population of more than 35,000 people. On the ruins of ancient Sparta, the historian Kennell writes that only three ...

Sparta—once a dominant military power in ancient Greece,collapsed not from conquest, but from deep internal weaknesses. In this video, we explore why one of history’s most feared warrior societies ...

A couple small ruins, some olive trees, and down below, the cold waters of the Eurotas River. Nothing half as flashy as the Parthenon. Like their prized republic, admirers of ancient Sparta don ...

[7 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth] Ancient Spartan palace? The ruins, which are on a low ... "Tradition tells us that Sparta was an important site in the Mycenaean period," Haskell ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at ...

The statue was found at Sparta’s sanctuary of Athena Chalkioikos, a temple of special significance to Spartan soldiers. Alamy/ACI In the same vein, various ancient philosophers and orators ...

ATHENS–Archaeologists in Greece have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace with important ... had around 10 rooms and was discovered near Sparta in southern Greece. At the site ...

New excavations at a site near historical Sparta may have uncovered the ... [7 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth] Ancient Spartan palace? The ruins, which are on a low hill on a ...