First introduced in the Olympic Games in 648 BCE, pankration had minimal rules, allowing fighters to employ a wide array of ...
History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...
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.
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.
The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...