Donald Trump after his inaugural address as the 47th President of the United States raised a clenched fist yet again. It is a gesture Trump has deployed on many occasions – most memorably in the ...

This marked the first Olympics where gold medals were introduced, with the U.S. dominating by winning 78 of 96 events.

It requires engaging with one another and arguing with each other, and admitting mistakes. Callard offers a roadmap for using the ancient Greek philosopher for approaching knotty discussion on topics ...

The auction house selling the medal, RR Auction, said that the 1904 Olympics were significant for multiple reasons. First, it was the first Olympic events that awarded gold, silver, and bronze ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The family of the late Costas Simitis former Prime Minister, his wife Daphne Simitis, fifth left, daughters ...

Simitis imposed financial measures to prepare for Greece’s entry into ... venue of the inaugural modern Olympics in 1896, but also to the birthplace of the ancient games in 776 B.C. But the ...

Orichalcum is a metal shrouded in mystery. First mentioned by ancient Greek writers around the seventh century B.C.E., orichalcum was described as golden and almost otherworldly. The term itself ...

As STEPHEN G MILLER (professor at Berkeley) points out in his Ancient ... uniquely Greek games gradually ruined into a form of universal entertainment, with professional, fulltime athletic Gilds ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...

Letters like this reveal ancient people’s everyday triumphs and ... His letter was written in Greek on papyrus, a writing material made from the pith of the papyrus plant. The dry climate ...

Ruins of ancient Corinth. Credit: MM, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Graffiti, produced by an inmate of an ancient Roman prison in Corinth, Greece, had a chilling message for captors, an ...

Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Games, like our modern Olympics, included champions and cheaters, glory and scandals, bitter ...