Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Ancient Olympic Games With an intensive athletes’ boot camp and the threat of execution for unwelcome spectators, the Greek sporting event was a serious ...

What perfect timing! There is no better way to honor the great Olympic games than by spending some time with the game’s founding fathers: the ancient Greeks. Aside from the Olympics, the ancient ...

Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece.

Women Weren't Allowed to Attend Ancient Olympics? The original Olympic Games in ancient Greece took place in Olympia.

So here are 16 ancient Greek vases, revised with AI to feature some events from the modern Olympics. 1.Breakdancing: 2.Table Tennis: 3.Surfing: ...

The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies frustrated efforts to produce the flame in the customary fashion, … ...

The ancient Olympic Games, which began in the 8th century B.C., laid the foundation for the modern Olympic movement, which is a source of national pride for the Greeks and which includes the ...

Compete naked and covered in oil? Not quite. The modern-day Olympic Games are quite different from the ancient ones. Here's when they first started.

THE SACRED SITE OF OLYMPIA The games are held at the site of Olympia, very close to the city of Elis. Other cities in Greece held games but the ancient Olympics were the most famous and prestigious.

Rare, ancient coins discovered in Greece, officials said. Some were minted during Olympic games, & others depict Hercules strangling snakes.

Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece.