The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games, consider this: It all started with a simple footrace. To history lovers like me, the Sanctuary of Olympia — the religious ...

As the first rays of morning light pierce through the clouds and fall upon these ancient ruins, a fine rain quietly descends. The raindrops fall on stone columns, statues, and crumbling walls, as if ...

An ancient bronze griffin's head returns today to the same museum in ancient Olympia from where it was stolen in the 1930s.

Some of the most outstanding include 3,500-year-old palaces at Mycenae and Pylos; the incredibly well-preserved theater at Epidaurus; Olympia ... of Greece’s best wines,” explains Peloponnese ...

Is there any evidence that king Atreus of Mycenae really existed? Can he be identified with the Attarsiya of ancient Hittite ...

While one legends claims the games were established by Heracles (Hercules), who brought a sacred olive tree to Olympia ... which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates) establish ...

While one legends claims the games were established by Heracles (Hercules), who brought a sacred olive tree to Olympia ... which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates) establish ...

We were in the southern Peloponnese, on our final day of exploring its beaches and mountain towns. My grandparents left this wild coastal region of Greece just before my mother was born ...

It was originally discovered in a river bed in Olympia, in the Peloponnese region of Greece, in 1914 by the curator of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia, but it went missing roughly two decades ...