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  • Bronze smith pouring molten metal from a crucible into a sword mould in a Late Bronze Age workshop

    Bronze: The Alloy That Named an Era

    Bronze changed everything. A simple alloy of copper and tin created the first long-distance trade networks, the first specialist artisan classes, and the first international arms races in human history....

    Bronze: The Alloy That Named an Era

    Bronze changed everything. A simple alloy of copper and tin created the first long-distance trade networks, the first specialist artisan classes, and the first international arms races in human history....

  • Lycurgus: The Spartan Lawgiver Who Might Have Been A Myth AD/BC

    Lycurgus: The Spartan Lawgiver Who Might Have B...

    Lycurgus supposedly created every institution that made Sparta Sparta. The agoge, the common messes, the land redistribution, the ban on gold and silver. The Delphic Oracle endorsed his laws as...

    Lycurgus: The Spartan Lawgiver Who Might Have B...

    Lycurgus supposedly created every institution that made Sparta Sparta. The agoge, the common messes, the land redistribution, the ban on gold and silver. The Delphic Oracle endorsed his laws as...

  • Portrait of Spartan admiral Lysander in bronze cuirass on a warship deck

    Lysander: Too Powerful for Sparta

    Lysander won the longest war in Greek history by doing everything Sparta's system told him he should not do. He befriended a Persian prince, built a navy on foreign gold,...

    Lysander: Too Powerful for Sparta

    Lysander won the longest war in Greek history by doing everything Sparta's system told him he should not do. He befriended a Persian prince, built a navy on foreign gold,...

  • Close-up of a clay bowl of dark Spartan black broth with steam and barley bread

    Black Broth — Why Spartans Didn't Fear Death

    Every Spartan citizen ate the same meal at the same table every night. Black broth: pork cooked in its own blood with vinegar and salt. Each man contributed a fixed...

    Black Broth — Why Spartans Didn't Fear Death

    Every Spartan citizen ate the same meal at the same table every night. Black broth: pork cooked in its own blood with vinegar and salt. Each man contributed a fixed...

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