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Did you hear about the lost letter asserting that the Spartans and Jews were "brothers" from the family of Abraham? What does Jerusalem have in common with Sparta anyway?
Discover the letter (and the link) lurking in the video below. Click the panel.
A view to the ruins (and modern village) of Sparta, Greece.
“Molon labe” is a defiant classical Greek phrase meaning “come and take [them].” It is most famously attributed to King Leonidas I of Sparta as a response to the Persian King Xerxes' demand for the Spartans to surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.
Click the panel below to visit Sparta, the home of Leonidas I.
After ancient Sparta's power was broken by the Thebans and later the Romans, the city dwindled into a small village and was eventually sacked by the Visigoths at the end of the fourth century. During the Middle Ages, the site was largely abandoned as the population moved to the nearby fortified hilltop of Mystras for better protection. In 1834, after the Greek War of Independence, King Otto of Greece refounded the modern city of Sparti directly atop the ancient ruins, creating the grid-patterned town that exists today.
Modern constructed has obscured some of the ancient ruins, but something else happened, far more terrible.
To see learn one “modern” archaeologist did here, watch the video.
