Nemea had many facilities for athletes and even a mechanical starting system for the runners. The Nemean Games ... aiming to experience ancient Greek culture rather than achieve athletic glory.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Although this year will mark the 128th running of the Boston Marathon, the history of the marathon race dates back far longer than a century, stretching thousands of years into ancient Greece ...