During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

Israel should want to be Athens, not Sparta, two liberal Zionist academics argue.

Popular culture has mythologised The Spartans as militaristic warriors but how much of what we think we know is actually true ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Sparta comparison doesn't bode well for the nation as it fights a ground war and a PR ...

The legend of Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens to announce victory and collapsing may not be entirely accurate.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

OP-ED. The prospect of an end to the war in Gaza, after two years of conflict, brings relief to Israeli society, which had ...

Lanterns: 6-10:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, Oct. 15-19 and 22-26, at the Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake-Cook Road, ...

The first courier in Budapest I actually spoke to, as opposed to merely thanking after a late night fast food delivery, was idling on his bicycle a few blocks from the Basilica of St. Stephen on a hot ...

In his landmark study of the history of economic growth, Joel Mokyr observed "the best predictor of the living standard that a newborn baby can expect to enjoy is the accident of where he or she is ...

Tamanrasset sits at the geographic heart of the desert. Linked to the north by 1,200 mostly paved miles of the Trans-Saharan Highway, it dominates a network of dirt tracks stretching into Mali, Niger, ...

For two years, New Jersey has been preparing for America’s 250th anniversary, setting the bar for the nation. Among those at ...