You probably know that the Paris 2024 Olympic Games start today whether you've seen the official Olympics poster design or not. Some might even argue that in an era of mass digital media, the ...

Even the so-called Intercalated Games, which were again hosted by the Greek capital in 1906, did not include artistic competitions. It was in that year when Coubertin proposed to the members of the ...

For nearly 1,000 years, the Greek games featured artistic competitions alongside athletic ones. Now, this ancient tradition is inspiring France's new Cultural Olympiad.

Nearly 2,800 years ago, ancient Greek Olympic champions were crowned with wreaths. Then, in the early modern games starting in 1896, champions went home with clocks, cups, trophies and even paintings.

From Greece, the Olympic flame will travel from Athens’ port of Piraeus on the Belem, a French three-masted sailing ship built in 1896 — the year of the first modern games in Athens.

Heralds travelled to all major Greek cities around the Mediterranean to announce the dates of the Games, along with the sacred truce. Hostilities were banned during the period around the Games to ...

The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years , around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, ...

Y ou probably know that the Paris 2024 Olympic Games start today whether you've seen the official Olympics poster design or not. Some might even argue that in an era of mass digital media, the ...