Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military ...

Many of us have heard of the unusual practices of Sparta, the war-obsessed, ancient Greek society. Let's be real: many of us learned them from the notorious 2006 film, 300. While the movie, and our ...

What did Thucydides really say on this? And what’s Athens and Sparta got to do with the current state of US-China relations?

This is the latest edition of our series on underrated destinations, It’s Still a Big World. Few foreigners realize that Sparta still exists. The ancient city-state, which walked the line between ...

Sparta, a Greek cafe in Yokohama, is ancient, at least by the standards of Greek restaurants in Japan. The eatery, which opened in 1953, claims to be the oldest Greek restaurant in the country. Its ...

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 discover palace with archaic inscriptions built during the Mycenaean period Archaeologists in Greece have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace with important archaic inscriptions ...