Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by walking under this archway. The ancient games were also a religious festival, held in honour of Zeus, the king of the gods.

After a week traveling throughout Greece, the handover ceremony will take place in the Athens Panathenaic Stadium on April 27. Written and reported by Karen Rosenin Ancient Olympia. For general ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA (Greece), September 29 (Itar-Tass) -The ceremony of lighting the flame of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games in Sochi started in Ancient Olympia in the west of the Greek Peloponnese ...

Vrasidas Karalis, professor of modern Greek at the University of Sydney, grew up in Olympia, where he used to play with friends among the ancient stadium ruins. "For the ancient Greeks ...

honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.

With certain traditional exceptions including Greece – the historical home of the ancient Olympic Games – entering first and the ... For that reason, the country with the honor of directly following ...