This stunning Greek peninsula offers stunning natural beaches, coves, charming towns, is the birthplace of the Olympic Games ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls chant in the ancient liturgical language of one of the oldest branches of Christianity.

It is hallowed ground, this track at ancient Olympia in Greece, where the games that started the Olympic movement began back ...

Athens was chosen to honor the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Olympia, Greece, from at least 776 BC until they were abolished in 393 AD. Reviving the Olympic Games in ...

Today, they are collectively known as the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". According to legend, King Nebuchadnezzar II built these beautiful gardens in the 6th century BC for his wife ...

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, ...

Since its first edition at Athens in 1896, in a sense a rebirth that was a tribute to the ancient games staged by the Greeks in Olympia and the spirit that it embodied, the Olympics has only expanded.

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

Kumu hula Kawaikapuokalani Hewett continues to expound on hula kahiko as it is performed today – an amalgamation of ancient and evolved cultural practices. Select whether each of the following ...

But it's not just participants who benefit. Athletes with intellectual disabilities can participate in Special Olympics BC programs across B.C. where they can find joy through sport in a friendly ...

The torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been ...

The Tauri are similar to the ancient Kizil-Koba people (from 9th–8th millennia BC) when they reached a specific point in their history. Gravestones found in the city of Chersonesus state that the ...