Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between ...

Sanctions date back to antiquity, with the "Megarian Decree" issued by Athenian statesman Pericles in 432 BC being the first recorded ...

The Archeological Museum of Sparta is located in the modern city of Sparta, which was established in 1834 and built over much of ancient Sparta. (Photo by Norma Meyer) Although the museum spans ...

Just about everyone in Turkey's ancient city was a wine drinker - whether or not they belonged to the upper classes or the ...

The communal nature of foraging and hunting, and later farming, meant humans almost always ate their meals in the company of ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

A lot has changed with regards to how and when we eat, and our meals and eating habits are continuing to evolve.

A New York father and NAACP leader is demanding his school district discontinue its new "Spartans" mascot, alleging the ...

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Troy is an ancient city and archaeological site in western ... left her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta for Paris of Troy after Goddess Aphrodite made her 'fall in love' with him.

William King Moss III, a father of two second-graders in the Brentwood Union Free School District on Long Island, filed a ...