Dr Judith Swaddling is an Assistant Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the British Museum. She is author of The Ancient Olympic Games, a guide to both the games and the site of ancient ...

The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Inspired by ancient Greece, the torch relay ...

The Summer Olympic Games in Paris is in full swing ... back around 3,000 years—held every four summers in honour of the Greek god Zeus. But modern companies can gain valuable lessons from ...

banned the worship of pagan cults—including the Olympics—in 393 C.E. It would be another 15 centuries before Greek philanthropist Evangelos Zappas revived them in 1896.Traveling to the Summer ...

A taste of the suffering to come had already been evident in 2005, when the European Commission put Greece under fiscal monitoring after the state had spent more than €9 billion on the Olympics ...

Behind closed doors, seven candidates hoping to lead the International Olympic Committee made key pitches on Thursday to ...