The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

Ancient Rome was home to vast collections of scrolls, records, and philosophical works. Yet much of that knowledge has ...

The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

Ancient Greek vases, Etruscan artefacts and Roman relics sit alongside Michael Johnson’s golden shoes and Usain Bolt’s racing ...

Tree surgeons cut down historic pines near Rome's Colosseum on Friday, a fortnight after three people were hurt when a ...

People expect English from an American — not fluent Latin straight out of Ancient Rome. When I start speaking, listeners freeze, laugh, and try to process what century they’re in. The pronunciation, ...

Featuring tributes to da Vinci and Dante, Puccini and Pausini, Armani and Fellini, pasta and vino, and other iconic tastes of ...

The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics are underway after the lighting of the Olympic cauldrons and the Parade of Nations at ...

Prized by the Romans for its hot springs, Bormio is now hoping to capitalise on hosting ski mountaineering’s Olympic debut ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, an avid tennis player and sports fan, marked the start of the Winter Games on Friday by extolling ...

Four locations, one Olympic heartbeat. For the first time in Olympic Games history, Friday’s opening ceremony unfolded across multiple locations, all in northern Italy, the culmination of more than ...

Milan and Cortina will be the first cohost cities in Olympic history, setting the stage for a diverse Games that will ...