First introduced in the Olympic Games in 648 BCE, pankration had minimal rules, allowing fighters to employ a wide array of ...

The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

Explore the origins of the 8 oldest sports in human history, including running, boxing, and gymnastics, and how they shaped ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

As STEPHEN G MILLER (professor at Berkeley) points out in his Ancient Greek Athletics ... In The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics, Olympics, and Culture, William Blake Tyrrell (Michigan State ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy - and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Candidate to the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior ...

seven candidates hoping to lead the International Olympic Committee made key pitches on Thursday to about 100 voters in perhaps the most elusive and opaque election in world sports. The only set-piece ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Behind closed doors, seven candidates hoping to lead the International Olympic Committee ... set-piece campaign event before the March 20 poll in Greece let each ...