What did the swords look like in the Trojan War? As a Sky HISTORY series looks afresh at the legendary conflict, we assess ...

There's a shortage of swords in Sparta. Greek merchants from Athens to Thermopylae are also concerned about a scarcity of spears as they prepare for summer visitors obsessed with 300, the gory story ...

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.

Philopoemen was the most skilled general of the Achaean League. He defeated Sparta and propelled the league to prominence in ...