Acropolis of ancient Sparta

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Acropolis of ancient Sparta.
Ancient Sparta .
The findings of the monuments of the archaeological site are owed ​​by the Archaeological School English since 1910 with alternate stops and starts until 1990 , especially in the theater.
Another excavation was begun in the late 1800s , archaeologists from Americans and Greeks. Then, between 1973 and 1976 , they found very recent result under the technical direction of Professor HW Catling for the British Archaeological Society , which since 1992 , continues the search .
There are only a few evidences of ancient Spartan power from the excavations . The area of the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos on top of the Acropolis , designed by Vathykli in the sixth century BC The ancient theater of Sparta, in the south of the Acropolis, built of Hellenistic - Roman . They remain today the orchestra and the embankment with the inscriptions of the kings of Sparta in Roman times and the large auditorium of the theater . The so-called semi-circular building , of uncertain origin and perhaps for the worship of deities archaic ( chthonic ) dating from around the fifth century . C. Remains of shops next to the ancient theater , were found during archaeological excavations of the British School .