If you hope to drop a few pounds or build that summer six-pack, ancient Greek athletes can give helpful pointers about ...

The answer, it turns out, traces back 3,000 to 4,000 years, to the ancient Babylonian festival of Akitu ... is in the process ...

The mummies date back to the Ptolemaic period. A team of Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with golden tongues and fingernails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus.

After the completion of the excavation, Greek archaeologists have configured the Gymnasium of Ancient Olympia. The gymnasium was built in the second century BC next to the bed of the Kladeos River and ...

Visitors can now explore its grandeur, alongside Philip II’s intact tomb and a vast necropolis. Ancient Gymnasium of Olympia Reconstructed: In Olympia, archaeologists reconstructed the second-century ...

The modern Olympic Games are the world’s foremost multi-sports event. They are the largest sporting celebration in terms of the number of sports on the programme, the number of athletes present and ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

Olympia officials say they’re seeing an influx of people coming to Olympia in search of shelter after the ruling in Martin v. Boise was overturned. At the Dec. 10 City Council meeting, council ...

Chou advanced to the men’s singles semi-finals on Friday by upsetting top-seeded Anders Antonsen of Denmark in a must-win match at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium. The 16-21, 21-18, 21-15 ...

Advertisement For years, Sebastian Coe has been resistant to the idea of taking a competition outside of the Olympic track stadium, which is usually an 80,000-seat facility and the biggest and ...

"Some experts speculate that ancient Chinese in the area regarded pigs as symbols of wealth. Including this jade pig, all the exhibits have undergone non-destructive scientific analysis to confirm ...

However, the ancient wording, dating back to between 230 and 270 — when the predominant religions in Europe were Judaism and paganism — has been virtually illegible until now. Specialists from ...