Historically, “Sparta,” was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, a main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, and around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military ...

Republicanism and democracy in the mixed polity: Sparta, the Lacedaemonians, and ancient Greek philosophy As an example of such a mixed polity, Aristotle points to Sparta. “In general, the whole ...

The curious minds at Aperture look into an ancient Spartan rulebook to reveal lessons that could help you survive extreme situations.

Laconic Greek, the dialect once spoken by the ancient Spartans, is one of the most fascinating examples of linguistic endurance. Despite centuries of historical upheavals, conquests, and the dominance ...

Athens - 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 on Tuesday. The palace, ...

Researchers at Turkey's Durupinar site have found promising evidence of a man-made structure at a boat-shaped formation, possibly suggesting the location of of Noah's Ark.

Scientists have discovered an ancient protein that has the rare property of being ‘ambidextrous’ — it can function in mirror-image forms. The molecule could be a relic of a time when life ...

Getting from ancient Greece to classical Rome, however, probably didn’t cost Norberg much sleep, especially as Horace gave him the line “Greece, the captive, took her savage victor captive”. In ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write ...

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Every day 10,000 traders sell thousands of different products to 30,000 buyers from all over Southeast Asia, all of them jammed in a colossal structure resembling a domed football stadium.

The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around ...