First introduced in the Olympic Games in 648 BCE, pankration had minimal rules, allowing fighters to employ a wide array of ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

Researchers looking into the ‘Greek Titanic’ have found rare items on the ocean floor near the ship’s wreckage. The Heimara ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

Have you ever been daydreaming mid-run and wondered why the distance you are training for is exactly 42.195 kilometres? It ...

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the dawn of an "ancient Hellenic civilisation" following the Greek Dark Ages.

Unlike modern boxing, ancient Greek boxing had minimal rules and no weight classes, leading to often mismatched and extremely brutal encounters.

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...