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Greek police have recovered artifacts stolen from the ancient Olympics museum in February and arrested three suspects in the armed robbery. Authorities arrested three men after one of the suspects ...
Ahead Of 2020 Summer Olympics, A Building Boom In Kyoto Is Yielding Ancient Artifacts Archaeologists are rushing to uncover, document and preserve centuries-old objects as new hotels and office ...
Put together with artefacts from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, it is a four-part historical tour of the ancient Olympics and their modern rebirth in the late 1800s, including a hall ...
More than 110 artefacts from the British Museum illustrate the legends and history of the ancient and modern Olympic Games; featuring Discobolus (right), a Roman marble statue of a discus thrower ...
A popular game in Ancient Greece and one of the core events within the Ancient Olympic Games (which trace back to the 7th century B.C.E.), the discus thrower motif was a common one within the ...
On Saturday, a new exhibition, The Games: Ancient Olympia to Atlanta to Rio, opens at the Millennium Gate Museum, highlighting plenty of Greek artifacts—including a model of the statue of Zeus ...
Naked runners, deadly competitions and banquets to honor the gods: The original Olympics were far different from the modern Games.