Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running. Jumping. Throwing. Wrestling. Boxing. Horse racing. We’ve got it all going on! Welcome to Olympia ...
Dr Judith Swaddling is an Assistant Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the British Museum. She is author of The Ancient Olympic Games, a guide to both the games and the site of ancient ...
The festival and games, which included running, jumping and throwing events, plus boxing ... and cultural gathering of the ...
The Venus statues in the Qiantan area have become popular with photographers. Six colorful statues of Venus, each playing a ...
which indicates the close cultural exchanges between China and its neighbouring countries in ancient times. 铜饰正中二人正作角抵状,从角抵者的形象看,反映的应是古代北方少数民族的摔跤活动。 A bronze engraving in the Warring States Period ...
The Emergence of Early Sports The Emergence of Early Sports Like other forms of culture, such as science, arts, education and religion, sport as a social phenomenon first appeared in human history ...
Ancient Greek pottery is my favorite because it depicted everything. But then...we stopped. It's a shame because a lot has happened since this art style peaked. So here are 16 ancient Greek vases ...
Olympic victor lists emerge as a clearly defined type of literature that is best understood as a group of closely related texts. As a work of scholarship, the book is impressively thorough...For a ...
The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true ...
In an exclusive interview with BoxingScene, Mike McAtee, the executive director of USA Boxing, discussed the future of Olympic boxing and the challenges the organization faces moving forward.
It comes after the IBA was stripped of its recognition by the IOC last year over governance and finance issues, with the Olympic body running the boxing competition in Paris itself, and permitting ...
an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civilizations Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard Experts added a carbon fiber pole to help anchor the "Apollo Belvedere," which had developed cracks along ...