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 ...

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 ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

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, ...

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 discover palace with archaic inscriptions built during the Mycenaean period Archaeologists in Greece have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace with important archaic inscriptions ...