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

To me, it sounded like the ancient Greek version of a week-long tailgate ... It would be 1,503 years before athletes — fully ...

Everybody must have been struck at one time or another by the truth of some of the facts about athletes stated in the ... and which became the unit of the Greek road measure, being 600 Greek ...

The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists ... Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation ...

The gymnasia were the ancient Greek equivalent of a sports centre ... practice rooms and baths. Athletes wore no clothes and it was common practice for them to oil or dust their bodies before ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

Other written accounts suggest bribery was fairly common during ancient sporting events. Fines imposed on athletes who violated ... In his writings, the Greek sophist Philostratus complains ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

The same thing can be said for athletes training for the ancient Olympics in Greece. Alexander the Great brought elephants back to the Mediterranean world after campaigning in northern India ...

Everybody must have been struck at one time or another by the truth of some of the facts about athletes stated in the ... and which became the unit of the Greek road measure, being 600 Greek ...

The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists ... Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation ...