Explore the origins of the 8 oldest sports in human history, including running, boxing, and gymnastics, and how they shaped ...

Hundreds of papyrus scrolls were found in the 1750s amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, ...

You probably know this from all the green around you, but the Eagles are off to the Super Bowl and will be facing the Chiefs ...

Visitors can glimpse at ancient Egypt’s cultural treasures ... 50 hectares — equivalent to approximately 93 American football fields — the sprawling complex encompasses rotating and ...

Greek-born George Karlaftis is becoming the National Football League's (NFL) emerging star with the Kansas City Chiefs.

The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was a prized commodity believed to confer special health benefits.

A rare "Corinthian" helmet from ancient Greece will go up for auction in London later this month. Such helmets were iconic of the ancient Greek style of infantry fighting and have become emblems ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed at the Louvre since 1821, is one of the most famous artworks in the world. Yet relatively little is ...