The ancient game of kho kho is enjoying a resurgence in India, with organisers of the first international tournament hoping ...

Roger Lebranchu who survived almost two years in Nazi concentration camps and was the oldest person to carry the Olympic ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Paris Olympics organizer Tony Estanguet was nominated Tuesday to return to the IOC as a member.

If you hope to drop a few pounds or build that summer six-pack, ancient Greek athletes can give helpful pointers about ...

Sports tourism in ancient Greece was widespread, especially to the athletic events of the games at Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia and Nemea.

a very ;sea CD attached to the book, containing a great many of Blake Tyrrell's original sources in translation. The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge) is a much better organised attempt at ...

Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Games, like our modern Olympics, included champions and cheaters, glory and scandals, bitter ...

There is no peak in sight. There is simply an arrow pointing up. 1. Simone Biles, Snoop Dogg, and the 2024 Olympics This was the most fun Olympics in memory, no? Part of it was just the way we ...

A paper, published on 20 September in Nature Communications, gives insight into this ancient child's life and appearance, yielding valuable clues about the early human population of southern Europe.

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, the country’s interior ministry said in a Monday statement.

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...