Sock ball was long considered a poor man's game for Egyptian football lovers, but more recently it's become a show of ...

Archaeologists outside Naples excavated a 1,700-year-old burial ground with dozens of tombs and an inscription linked to a gladiator. Photo from the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and ...

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The site was first settled by Thracians, and it is accepted that a Thracian cult center existed there between the XII and VI ...

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Roman Reigns returned to WWE RAW at Madison Square Garden, interfering in a Steel Cage match between Seth Rollins and CM Punk. Reigns helped Rollins secure the win by pulling him out of the cage ...

The reverence for sacred springs and rivers continued beyond Ancient Greece, influencing Roman religious practices and medieval Christian traditions. Sites that once held such sacred waters became ...

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This ancient form of football has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside to watch a two-day game of ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Every year, Ashbourne in England hosts Royal Shrovetide Football, a chaotic yet historic event dating back to 1667. The town splits into Up'ards and Down'ards, who compete to move a ball across ...

This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside to watch a two-day game of mass ...