The Olympics have a rich history. Check out more information on their prolific past, promising present, future forecast, and ...

The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

Davidson College Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Allison Smith examines the "distant echoes" of the original Olympic Games and how they compare to the modern global competition. The ...

The ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 B.C. — -- The Olympic Games that we know and celebrate today stem from events held thousands of years ago in Ancient Greece. The first recorded ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...

The Olympic flame for this summer's Paris Games was lit on Tuesday in Ancient Olympia, Greece, where cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting ceremony via the rays of the sun. Instead, a ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece — Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies ...