Furthermore, the region of Messenia was brought under Spartan control, helotage was introduced, and the Peloponnesian League was founded and made Sparta a dominant power in ancient Greece. Perhaps the ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. Experts think ...

The pair, possibly husband and wife, stand within a niche on the boundary wall of a monumental ancient tomb ... As well as the newly announced statues, in 2021, the team unearthed the tomb ...

Some two to three dozen people gather to dedicate a new monument—a bronze statue of a boy standing ... common Ukrainian phrase borrowed from ancient Sparta for those who have fallen in battle.

However, the discovery of this ancient statue—and exquisite preservation—was far from certain when the statue was first discovered lying face down in January 2024. “One problem with ...

Tension prevailed in Jaipur’s Pratap Nagar in Rajasthan after a statue of Veer Tejaji Maharaj was allegedly vandalised by unidentified miscreants at a temple on Tonk Road. Following the incident, the ...

The Agoge prepared Spartan boys for a life of military service. Credit: Jona Lendering / Wikimedia Commons CC0 Ancient Sparta has been known for centuries around the world for its meticulous and harsh ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ... that once hung on an ancient wooden structure nearby ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient ... city of Sparta, just a 10-minute drive from Euphoria; there I stared at excavated funeral urns, statues ...