Has Sparta’s lost city been found?
https://www.thevintagenews.com/ The Spartans are by far the most famous Greek civilization in the modern culture, but the mighty warriors were immortalized well before the film “300” hit the radar. They were commemorated in Homer’s Iliad, and Sparta was known for ruling Greece for centuries. But one day they mysteriously disappeared; around 1200 BC the civilization vanished. But recently, archaeologists have confirmed there is hope that a team has discovered ruins of an ancient palace that might have been a part of the Spartan metropolis. The mighty palace, containing about ten rooms, was unearthed near Xirokambi Lakonia village. This same little settlement is known to have been located right on the border of ancient Sparta. The palace held ancient inscriptions that were written between the 17 th and 16 th century BC. Along with the ruins, a team of excavators found a wide variety of Spartan-like objects at the site, artifacts which include mythological symbols, mini c...