Archaeologists just found a 1,500-year-old Germanic tomb that they believe belonged to an ancient lord. At the site, they ...

The Olympic cauldron for these Games is "a tribute to the first flight ... The idea for the Olympic flame has its roots in ancient Greece, where a sacred fire was kept burning throughout the Ancient ...

Greece said it has recovered from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art a 2,600-year-old bronze artefact stolen from ancient Olympia in the 1930s.

For the first time in the history of the Games, the cauldron - a 7m (23-feet) diameter ring of fire supported by a giant air balloon - flew through the air. His idea, inspired by the ancient Greek ...