Boxer Theagenes of Thasos was one of the towering sporting figures from the ancient Olympic Games who supposedly won 1,400 ...

Ancient Greek sanctuaries were places of worship, but they also served as business centers, attracting large numbers of ...

Greek water polo player Elena Xenaki will serve as the final torchbearer on Greek soil for the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) announced on Thursday.

The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436-338 BC) once commented: Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought and ...

Torchbearers will begin carrying flame through Canada next week on 106-day relay Vancouver Olympics official: "It will be the longest domestic relay in Olympic history" (CNN) -- The torch for the 2010 ...

In recent sports news, LeBron James teases a big announcement, the Edmonton Oilers secure Jake Walman with a major deal, and ...

This video examines the decline of Classical Greece after the age of Athens and Alexander, tracing how political domination by Hellenistic kingdoms and Rome brought stability but also cultural ...

The world’s finest shotgun shooters are set to assemble in Athens, Greece, for the ISSF World Championship Shotgun 2025, scheduled from October 8 to 19 at the Malakasa Shooting Range of the Greek ...

A German woman who stole the top of an ancient column in Olympia over half a century ago has returned it to Greece, the Greek ...

Host nation Italy is going to really spread around the honors at the upcoming Milan-Cortina Olympics with an unprecedented ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Multi-colored ticket to the 2004 ...