Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was ...

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

Unlike Olympic medals these days which are mostly made of silver with gold plating, these were smaller and made entirely of ...

This marked the first Olympics where gold medals were introduced, with the U.S. dominating by winning 78 of 96 events.

A gold medal awarded to the winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, the first Games hosted on U.S.

Yet, in a land whose ancient Greek forebears coined the notion of ... into a broader crisis across the eurozone. The Summer Olympics, held shortly after Mr. Simitis left office in March 2004 ...

The palaestra in ancient Olympia was where wrestlers, boxers, and pankration practitioners trained. Credit: George E. Koronaios / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Tourism was widespread in ancient ...