Athens will host the 42nd Authentic Marathon, running from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium with thousands of runners and ...

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back -- not just from Marathon ...

Roberto Bolle, the internationally acclaimed ballet star, will headline the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics closing ...

Olympic events are far from a modern invention. These competitions have taken place in various forms for thousands of years, ...

Inside View: WSJ columnist Andy Kessler would rather be subjected to Jimmy Kimmel than protected from him by government. The essay on “The Braggart” begins: “Bragging is pretending to have excellences ...

In 1901, divers searching for sponges off the coast of Greece stumbled upon a shipwreck that would change history. Among the bronze statues and pottery was a corroded lump of metal—an object that, ...

You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.” There are mysteries afoot, for sure. But a viewer will have the unavoidable suspicion that doom ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Unionized Starbucks baristas want the International Olympic Committee to drop the coffee chain as its “official ...

Greek Ambassador to China Evgenios Kalpyris addresses the opening of an Olympics-themed photo exhibition at the Beijing Olympic Museum, on June 13, 2025. [Photo by Yang Xiaoyu/chinadaily.com.cn] ...

A bronze, temple-shaped box dating back over 1,700 years was discovered in central Romania, officials with the Turda History Museum announced in late September. Archaeologists unearthed the box over ...

When most people think of the sport rugby, Tonga is not at the top of the list of competitors. But the island nation of the south Pacific appears to have had its own ancient version of the game with a ...

A telltale hint was on the bee’s knees. An analysis of 127 fossil flowers, flower buds and bees from central Germany revealed pollen particles that precisely matched ancient flowers to their ...