The free exhibition runs at the World Expo Museum in Shanghai until Oct 26. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Through six ...

Forget Santorini and Mykonos, this stunning Mediterranean island boasts an alluring history steeped in mythology, plus ...

UNIVERSITY PARK – Four Penn State student-athlete are among the contingent of students traveling to Greece as part of Harvard ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

“Athletics” has evolved considerably since Ancient Greece, both in terms of who is allowed to compete and the purpose of competition. (File image)Warwick Smith / Stuff The association between ...

Sports also served military purposes in a ancient Greece, especially in Sparta where all citizens received stoic military training from early childhood, in almost the same sports as in ancient China.

Abstract As the 2016 Rio Olympics approached, the sports community put forth a series of requirements on how to achieve optimal athletic performance. In this context, we focus on the dietary and ...

A revised estimate of Greek units of linear measurement would appear to emerge from a study of the records of feats accomplished in the long jump by athletes of ancient Greece in the great ...

Ancient Greek athletes accomplished many astonishing feats of sport in antiquity. But what diet fueled these ancient Greek Olympians?

Ancient Greek athletes left their mark on the original Olympic Games, with many of their accomplishments recorded by some of the greatest historians. Now athletes from 184 countries have been taking ...

Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Ancient Olympic Games With an intensive athletes’ boot camp and the threat of execution for unwelcome spectators, the Greek sporting event was a serious ...

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