The Olympics, which took place every four years until at least 393 A.D., was the premier sporting, social and cultural ...

Games were held all over ancient Greece; but the most famous ... began in 1850. The modern Olympics were the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a Hellenophile French educator and historian ...

Taking the modern past first into consideration ... The foot races at the Olympic games were of three lengths - namely, once over the course or "stadion," as it was called, and which became ...

The 41st Athens Marathon kicks off with a historic race, celebrating athletic legacy and honoring the spirit of the ancient marathon.

When was running invented? Runing is an instinctive movement that evolved as a survival skill for early humans. Read on to ...

Three new bells were delivered to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, marking a milestone in its restoration following the 2019 ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... Invite them to share some knowledge about the modern-day Olympics and explain that they are going to find ...

Once considered the apex of the ancient Olympic Games ... So when the event was re-introduced into the modern Olympics in 1912 — this time as modern pentathlon and consisting of fencing ...

While Antoine Arnault of LVMH may insist that "financial benefits have never been a goal of this partnership," NBC’s ...

The main difference between ancient and modern javelins is the use of a ... becoming a key event in the Olympic Games around 708 BC as part of the pentathlon. Athletes competed not just for ...

Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, whose historic bells were silenced following 2019’s devastating fire, will soon echo again with ...