The Pythian Games, ancient Greece's art Olympics, were a blend of athletic and cultural festivities taking place in Delphi ...

What is the origin of the ancient Macedonians? What does ancient Greek history and legend have to say about this?

The two main clusters of the Games are Milan — the beating heart of Italy’s industrial north — and Cortina d’Ampezzo, an ...

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps are hoping to qualify for their first Olympic Games, and when the cauldron is lit ...

A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.

Dutch Olympic Committee (NOC) members stood firmly by their decision to allow Steven van de Velde to compete in the 2024 ...

Thousands of years ago, people built things so advanced that even today’s experts can’t explain how. These ancient creations ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...

The inspiration for the modern marathon comes from an ancient legend: that of Philippides a Greek messenger who ran from ...