Santorini is famed for its crescent-shaped caldera, which was created by one of the largest known volcanic eruptions around 3,600 years ago. The tourist destination has been dubbed Greece’s ...

As STEPHEN G MILLER (professor at Berkeley) points out in his Ancient Greek Athletics ... In The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics, Olympics, and Culture, William Blake Tyrrell (Michigan State ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

The Greek language was written in capital letters, without punctuation or spaces between the words. Credit: Zde, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Have you ever wondered why ancient Greeks used a ...

It was ubiquitous in Roman culture, with roots in the ancient Greek game of Petteia. Ludus Latrunculi was “known for its simplicity yet deep strategic layers,” Koray Erdogan writes for ...

Every year, women in the village bring these walls to life with vibrant ... Over time, figurative elements inspired by ancient cave paintings were introduced, bringing new life into the tradition.

Two critical stages have elevated women’s soccer to unprecedented levels: the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the Olympics. The FIFA Women’s World Cup The FIFA Women’s World Cup is the most significant ...

Transgender women are increasingly likely to be banned from the female category across Olympic sport after another leading candidate to become International Olympic Committee president backed a ...

What are the next steps now for women’s flag football after the addition of the sport to the Olympics? “I believe women’s flag football is positioned for a significant breakthrough in ...

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt that cost far less than modern pieces from modern luxury ...

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 ...

Costas Simitis: modernised a heavily statist economy with labour reforms and part-privatisation, particularly in the banking sector - MARIA MAROGIANNI/EPA-EFE ...