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

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

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 Thermopylae in ...

An ancient palace believed to date back to the Mycenaean civilization has been unearthed in southern Greece. The 10-room Aghios Vassileios complex is thought to have been built between the 17th and ...

Archaeologists in Greece discovered what may be a Spartan palace from the ancient Mycenaean civilization. Tablets written in Linear B script, the earliest known written language of the Greek people, ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

As its visibility ramps up at E3 this week, we investigate the current status of World Forge's real-time strategy title Located in a verdant, fertile valley, the famed ancient city-state of Sparta ...

An ancient palace believed to date back to the Mycenaean civilization has been unearthed in southern Greece. The 10-room Aghios Vassileios complex is thought to have been built between the 17th and ...