Olympics

This image of the opening event of the first revived “modern” Irish sporting games is from 1924 and inspires a sense of regal elegance, competition, and celebration. Source: The Little Museum of Dublin

11 August, 2021 - 15:00 ashley cowie

Irish Sporting Games: A Big Event 1,000 Years Before Greek Olympics

Like in Greece, pre-historic Irish history was threaded together with tales of giants, gods and goddesses battling for supremacy over earth, and humans. But did you know it was the latter, not the...

28 March, 2021 - 19:02 dhwty

Reviving the Panathenaic Stadium for the Olympic Games

The Panathenaic Stadium is a historical monument located in Athens, Greece . Although the current structure was only built at the end of the 1800s, the current stadium was built on a site once...

Conservators clean up the bronze bull idol uncovered in Olympia. Source: Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports

19 March, 2021 - 22:00 Gary Manners

Beautiful Bronze Bull Idol Revealed By Rains In Olympia

A 2,700-year-old bronze bull idol has ‘come to light’ during excavations at the ancient site of Olympia in Greece. The stunning and perfectly preserved artifact is thought to have been a votive...

Ancient Greek Olympics were a fundamental aspect of ancient Greek culture. Various types of running took place during the games, along with equestrian sports and combat sports. Source: sebos / Adobe Stock

31 July, 2020 - 14:02 Riley Winters

From Myth to Reality: Olympia and the Ancient Greek Olympics

The Olympics , as they exist today, are but a shadow of their former glory. Though there are more activities and participants in the modern games, they do little to entice and arouse the Greek...

The Olympic Games Tokyo 202has been postponed. Source: kovop58 – Adobe Stock

24 March, 2020 - 17:57 Ed Whelan

Olympic Games Postponed for the First Time in History

The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics has been announced today. This had long been expected because of the global crisis caused by the Covid 19 or Coronavirus outbreak. It is the first time in...

A Greek amphora showing athletes, 4th century BC. ©Trustees of the British Museum.

22 February, 2018 - 01:45 ancient-origins

Mythbusting Ancient Rome: Did Christians Ban The Ancient Olympics?

Every two years, when the Winter or Summer Olympics comes around, we hear about how the games staged at Olympia in Greece since 776 BC came to a sudden end in the late fourth century AD. The finger...

1 July, 2017 - 18:19 Mark Oliver

Unleashing The Power of the Gods: Hexes and Black Magic in the Ancient Greek Olympics

When the ancient Olympics began, the greatest athletes in Greece gathered before a statue of Zeus Horkios, the god of oaths. Laid before its feet would be the freshly cut meat of a boar sacrificed by...

The Chariot race. Cynisca was a Spartan princess and the first women to win the chariot race in the ancient Olympic Games.

19 March, 2017 - 00:50 Natalia Klimczak

How Did She Do It? Cynisca, a Spartan Princess Who Won the Ancient Olympic Games

Since the beginning of time, women have liked to surprise men with their extraordinary power, strength, and skills. Few are shocked by female success in these areas nowadays, but in ancient times...

A tomb of athletes at Taranto. Inset: The skeleton of the ancient athlete found at Taranto

11 August, 2016 - 00:46 Mark Miller

2,500-Year-Old Skeleton is Oldest Known Remains of a Panathenaic Athlete

In ancient Greece, successful athletes were rich and celebrated like they are today. Evidence for this comes in the form of the oldest known skeleton of a young athlete, buried with rich honors at...

A Quadriga, with woman riding in a triumphal chariot. France.

10 August, 2016 - 18:40 MartiniF

Worshipers, Rule-Breakers and Champions: Women and the Ancient Greek Olympics

One of the aspects of culture regarded as distinctive to the ancient Greeks was their pursuit of sport. Apart from its function as the act of worship to Zeus, athletic competition, particularly at...

The palaestra of Olympia, a place devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes and Boxer resting after contest (bronze sculpture, BCE 300–200).

1 August, 2016 - 21:48 ancient-origins

Since Ancient Greece, the Olympics and Bribery Have Gone Hand in Hand

As a professor of classical studies, I’ve noticed some remarkable differences and similarities between the modern and ancient Olympic Games . The medals, the torch relay and events for females didn’t...

23 January, 2016 - 00:49 Theodoros Karasavvas

Pankration: A Deadly Martial Art Form from Ancient Greece

Pankration was one of the most popular combat sports in ancient Greece. It combined two other popular sports of antiquity, wrestling and boxing, but kicking was allowed as well. The name Pankration...

1 October, 2013 - 06:42 aprilholloway

Ancient Olympic Stadium Threatened by Budget Cuts in Greece

The ancient Olympic stadium of Nemea is under threat of closure as a result of steep budget cuts in the country as Greece enters its sixth consecutive year of recession. The Nemean Games were founded...

Myths & Legends

The Menehune of Hawaii – Ancient Race or Fictional Fairytale?

In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune are said to be an ancient race of people small in stature, who lived in Hawaii before settlers arrived from Polynesia. Many scholars attribute ancient structures...

Achilles’ Shield: What’s the Meaning of the Iliad’s Most Symbolic Object?

The Milesians: Mythic Origins of the Ancient Irish

The ancient origins of the legendary griffin

The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?

Unravelling the Roots of Hera, the Wrathful Goddess of Marriage

Human Origins

Photo of Zecharia Sitchin (left)(CC0)Akkadian cylinder seal dating to circa 2300 BC depicting the deities Inanna, Utu, and Enki, three members of the Anunnaki.(right)

Zecharia Sitchin and the Mistranslation of Sumerian Texts

In a previous 2-part article (1), the authors wrote about the faulty associations of the Sumerian deities known as the Anunnaki as they are portrayed in the books, television series, and other media, which promotes Ancient Astronaut Theory (hereafter “A.A.T.”).

Rh-Negative Blood: An Exotic Bloodline or Random Mutation?

King Solomon’s Mines Discovered: Kings and Pharaohs - Part I

3: The Perfect Number - Trinity Symbolism in World Religious Traditions

Melancholia: How Ancient Societies Grappled to Understand and Treat Depression

Ancient Anomalous Human Skeletons: Humanity Could be Much Older Than We Think

Ancient Technology

8 Ancient Chinese Inventions the West Had Not Imagined

The ancient invention of the steam engine by the Hero of Alexandria

Vimanas: Greater Understanding on a Hotly Debated Topic

They’re Alive! Megalithic Sites Are More than Just Stone

The Evidence is Cut in Stone: A Compelling Argument for Lost High Technology in Ancient Egypt

The South-Pointing Chariot: This Ancient Chinese Invention Led Armies In a Unique and Impressive Way

Ancient Places

El Caracol Observatory at Chichen Itza (Wright Reading/CC BY-NC 2.0) and Composite 3D laser scan image of El Caracol from above

Advanced Engineering Discovered at the Maya Observatory at Chichen Itza

In 1526, the Spanish conquistador Francisco de Montejo arrived on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and found most of the great Maya cities deeply eroded and unoccupied. Many generations removed from the master builders, engineers, and scientists who conceived and built the cities, the remaining Maya they encountered had degenerated into waring groups who practiced blood rituals and human sacrifice.

The Judean Date Palm: Extinct Tree Resurrected from Ancient Seeds

The Lost Tomb of Imhotep?

The Mystery of the Guanches and the Pyramids of Tenerife

Do not Underestimate the Etruscans: Art and Culture of their Own

Tintignac, Where the Gauls’ Favor of the Gods Couldn’t Last Forever

Opinion

3: The Perfect Number - Trinity Symbolism in World Religious Traditions

The concept of a Trinity or triadic nature of the divine has been a part of our psyche for thousands of years, and has appeared in creation tales, myths, religious writings and holy texts the world over. Yet to this day, the Trinity is always thought of as having its origin in Roman Catholicism—most notably at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, the first ecumenical council of Christian bishops where the consensus of beliefs was decided upon for all of Christendom, including the Trinity as the three-fold nature of the persona of God.

They’re Alive! Megalithic Sites Are More than Just Stone

The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?

Astonishing Human Heads: Do Satellite Photographs Now Prove Existence of Humans on Antarctica…6000 Years Ago? – Part I

The Great Salt Lake Enigma: Science Shows Anomalies – Evidence of a Global Flood?

Titans Under the Earth: Evidence for The Tall Ones, and the Mounds of Pennsylvania

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