Victory celebration. Long before the famous statue existed, the first Olympic Games, part of a festival honoring Zeus, were held in the Greek city-state of Elis in 776 B.C.

Modern technology has turned to the divine, recreating one of the Wonders of the Ancient World in the form of a 3D-printed statue of Zeus, the god that the original Olympic Games honored ...

This ancient Greek sanctuary had the first stadium ever constructed, and housed a giant statue of Zeus — one of the ancient Wonders of the World.

The graphic shows the Statue of Olympian Zeus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The Illustration based on the description by the historian Pausanias.

The ancient Olympic Games didn’t travel from city to city as they do now. Starting in 776 B.C., the Olympics were held quadrennially in Olympia, the sanctuary city of Zeus. Statues of the god ...

A "near-exact" 3D-printed scale plastic replica of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia created by Minnesota-based additive manufacturing company Stratasys Ltd to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the ...

Learn how and why the Olympic Games began in Greece. ... These are the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. Inside stood a giant statue of Zeus made from gold and ivory.

Religion pervaded the ancient Olympics. Zeus was thought to look down on the competitors, favouring some and denying victory to others. ... the money exacted was used to make a cult statue of Zeus.

Skip ahead 1,500 years and the modern Olympics begin in Athens in 1896. Aside from the World War years of 1916, 1940, and 1944, they had been a constant every four years.

The Olympics have always provided electrifying spectacles, from Bob Beamon's long jump in 1968, to gymnast Nadia Comaneci's perfect ten at Montreal in 1976, to Usain Bolt's record-breaking sprints ...