A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

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Anyone can improve their memory using a proven scientific method the ancient Greeks and Romans developed. The idea is to create a "memory palace." A group of researchers says training daily using an ...

An ancient Greek palace filled with cultic objects and clay tablets written in a lost script may be the long-lost palace of Mycenaean Sparta, one of the most famous civilizations of ancient Greece.