Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

The Roman playwright Plautus (3rd/2nd century BC) even has one of his characters complain about people "who play ball in the ...

International Olympic ... held in Rome on 14 and 15 June. The Pope's commitment to the Olympic ideal was perhaps most visible in July 2024, just days before the opening of the Paris Games, when ...

Roman emperor Nero had ... provoke the wrath of the gods. The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek origins.

held all around the Graeco- Roman world ... Tyrrell's original sources in translation. The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge) is a much better organised attempt at the broad-brush approach.

Competing in gymnastics, athletics, weightlifting and Greco-Roman wrestling, Germany’s Carl Schuhmann ... some 1,500 years after Greece had staged the last of the Ancient Olympic Games. Their revival ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the predecessor of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece.

An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is believed to be an ancient Roman gladiator. Artists have long depicted ...

Archaeologists excavated a muddy canal in the Netherlands and found ancient Roman artifacts and wood posts from after a flood, officials said. Photo from the Municipality of Utrecht Digging into ...

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 ...