Now Scherr and his colleagues have found that, while the heart shows some evidence of impairment right after a race, it quickly heals. And there are no long-term negative effects after 10 years of ...

Rabbi Abraham Unger, executive director of New Synagogue Palm Beach, said the holiday recognizes the survival of the Jewish ...

Uncovered near the submerged island of Antirhodos in Alexandria's Portus Magnus, this is the first ancient Egyptian party ...

Eva Palmer Sikelianos was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices.

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

The Olympic flame started its journey through Italy from a sunlit Rome on Saturday, launching a two-month relay designed to ...

Vintage engraving of the Ancient Olympic Games. The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. Men ...

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The first recorded victor at the Olympics was Coroebus of Elis. A cook by profession, Coroebus won the event called the “stadion” – a footrace of just under 200 meters, run in a straight line.

The ancient Greeks and Romans had very different ideas on how to stay clean. For despite the Roman (deserved?) reputation for hygiene due to their elaborate plumbing systems, heated public baths and ...

Competitors participate in the Northeastern Open Atlatl Championship on the shores of Vermont’s Lake Champlain. The sport utilizes an atlatl to throw darts based on the ancient spear-throwing hunting ...

Imagine ancient Greek athletes praying to Zeus before wrestling naked in olive oil. At the same time, 3,000 miles away, Mayan priests played pok-ta-pok ball games to predict harvests. Today, my local ...