The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece--Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

Credit: Egisto Sani, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter ... Pan-Hellenic (all of Greece) sanctuaries like Delphi and ...

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Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Ancient Olympia is the birthplace of the Olympics and its sanctuaries and temples are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece. Forming the backdrop to so much of Greek history, ...

(CNN) — A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian King has been unearthed, in what has been called a “remarkable” discovery by officials. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission ...

The Closing Ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics will take place in the Arena di Verona, a Roman amphitheater built in 30 AD. The arena is one of the best-preserved ancient structures of it’s kind, ...

The Final Leg is a longstanding tradition where law enforcement officers and Special Olympics athletes worldwide ... lighting at Zappeion Hall in Athens, Greece, on February 25 before traveling ...

The “steroid Olympics” has clinched a “double-digit” million-dollar cash infusion from investors led by Donald Trump Jr. as the controversial sporting event pursues an American debut ...

A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams with sniffer dogs and send instructions to residents including a request ...