The summer solstice occurs each year on June 21. It was celebrated by ancient cultures across the world, including the ...

Did the ancient Macedonians participate in the Olympic Games in which only the Greeks were allowed to compete?

She is author of The Ancient Olympic Games, a guide to both the games and the site of ancient Olympia. She acted as consultant for a documentary video on the ancient Olympics made for the ...

According to historical sources, "women" — specifically meaning, in that time and culture, married, childbearing females — were not allowed to attend or participate in the original Olympic ...

Max Miller recreated an ancient Greek dish. The recipe was straightforward, but it called for an extinct ingredient that required a substitute. Some athletes competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics ...

Here's what you need to know about wrestling at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did wrestling become an Olympic sport? Wrestling was part of the Ancient Greek Olympics, where competitors fought ...

In general, ancient Greeks considered olive trees "sacred," and they symbolized Zeus, the god of the sky and, later, the god of the Olympics, according to the Journal of Olympic History.

And in Greece, it’s a source of national pride. “The Greeks view the Olympics as something which is very much tangibly theirs,” said Alexander Kitroeff, an Athens native and Greek history pr ...

While today the Olympic Games are a moment of international amity and a celebration of sportsmanship and athleticism, for the Ancient Greeks the Olympics were an integral facet of culture and ...

Father Richard Pengelley, the former Anglican dean of Perth who represented Australia in water polo at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, says sport and religion were inseparable for the ancient Greeks.