This stunning Greek peninsula offers stunning natural beaches, coves, charming towns, is the birthplace of the Olympic Games ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Ancient Greeks came here only every four years, during the religious festival that featured the Olympic Games. The original Olympic Games were more than an athletic fest. Athletes, who were ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side ...

Since its first edition at Athens in 1896, in a sense a rebirth that was a tribute to the ancient games staged by the Greeks in Olympia and the spirit that it embodied, the Olympics has only expanded.

At the end of March, the Assiniboia Chamber Travel Group embarked on an extraordinary journey across more than 1,200 ...

The statue was placed in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, which was a declared area and the site for the ancient Olympic Games. Ancient author Strabo wrote about the size of the statue as so large ...

History and Stars of the World’s Greatest Sporting Event from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024 is a fresh compilation of the Games and its biggest stars ...

She has not been afraid to speak up when a child is mistreated, and she has had a few run-ins with the police force, all in ...

The most natural runner since Cathy Freeman at the Sydney Olympics and Tom Hanks in Forrest ... himself by breaking Peter Norman’s famed and ancient 200m Australian record.

From their inception, the ancient Wonders were also rooted in ... a religious sanctuary in southern Greece and the site of the Olympic Games. An energetic walker could cover the 210 miles in ...

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, ...