On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens, 1,500 years after Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned them in 393 ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical calculator, was found in a Roman-era shipwreck near ...

The Olympic dream for New Zealand boxers, has returned to be the ultimate goal, after seemingly being taken away due to continued corruption in the sport. Boxing dates back to the original Olympic ...

Although it’s not for another three years, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics could feature the involvement of none other than Kendrick Lamar. Casey Wasserman, the rapper’s booking agent and the ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

Zimbabwean Coventry won in the first round of voting in Greece with 49 of the 97 votes ... World Athletics and himself a double 1500 metres Olympic champion on the track, Coe said he was delighted ...

Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...

Algeria's Imane Khelif won the gold medal in the women's 66kg boxing final at the 2024 Summer Olympics [File ... approval by the IOC at its session in Greece and outgoing President Thomas Bach ...

The Olympic Games, with their origins in ancient Greece, were not only a showcase of athletic prowess but also a platform for fostering relationships among warring city-states. This led to the ...

It's Usain Bolt the champion javelin thrower. After securing an historic 'triple triple' of nine Olympic gold medals, the athletics icon used his much-earned downtime at Rio 2016 to try his hand ...