The concept of naked athletes competing in the Olympic Games may seem unusual or even shocking to modern audiences, but it ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by walking under this archway.

How did ancient Greece begin? The first Olympic games and new discoveries ... The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.

At the ancient Olympics in Greece, athletes weren’t the only stars of the show. The spectacle also attracted poets, who ...

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of ...