The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ... around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium ...

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the dawn of an "ancient Hellenic civilisation" following the Greek Dark Ages.

A very different kind of Olympics is underway in Rio de Janeiro to honour the original games in Ancient Greece - where all the competitors are naked. The sporty naturists wear just a suntan as ...

Ancient Greeks seem to have invented everything we use today: theater, Olympic games, philosophy, and yo-yos. We at Bright ...

Father Richard Pengelley, the former Anglican dean of Perth who represented Australia in water polo at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, says sport and religion were inseparable for the ancient Greeks.