One Olympian, Greek athlete Milo of Croton, had a slew of wrestling victories around 540 BCE. His daily diet supposedly consisted of 20 pounds of meat and bread each with copious wine.

Students at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in China embarked on a project to recreate a rice dish from an ancient recipe, yielding an unusual and surprisingly healthy food result.

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.