The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games, consider this: It all started with a simple ...

The daily life in Ancient Greece revolved around work, family, education, and religion, shaping a civilization that still ...

Not many events in history show what the culture of ancient Greece was like as well as the Panhellenic Games do.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in ...

Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site two days before the contest Thursday ...

Evangelos Zappas was born in 1800 in Lambovo, Epirus, in a time of turbulence and change. He was a child of a Greece that was ...

On March 18, the ancient Greek valley of Olympia once again became the focus of global attention. The 144th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was grandly inaugurated in an event ...

European Olympic Committees President Spyros Capralos delivers a speech during the opening ceremony for the the 144th ...

Delivering a message of “Values first”, IOC President Thomas Bach opened the 144th IOC Session this afternoon in the ...