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 ...

At a time of internal social upheaval, Sparta looked westward across the Mediterranean and founded the colony of Taras.

From Mauritius to Sparta, after years of spiritual searching across cultures, Scarlett Athanasia Bauwens finds clarity, peace ...

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 ...

It is a quirk of history and geography that Yokohama, rather than Tokyo, has long been the place to go if you're looking for Greek food. Yokohama is where the freighters docked and, inevitably, some ...

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 Tuesday. The palace, likely ...

The city state of Sparta, in many respects, was different from Athens. Geographically it was situated in a mountainous area which isolated it from other cities. The state was founded in 10th century ...

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, ...