The woman — who hails from Germany — took a piece of a limestone column from a building in Ancient Olympia in the 1960s.

In the presence of multiple sports authorities and athletes, the Hellenic Olympic Committee detailed on Thursday, during a ...

A German woman returned a 2,400 year-old relic from Ancient Olympia in Greece after taking it from the site in the 1960s. The ...

Torchbearers will begin carrying flame through Canada next week on 106-day relay Vancouver Olympics official: "It will be the longest domestic relay in Olympic history" (CNN) -- The torch for the 2010 ...

Greek water polo player Elena Xenaki will serve as the final torchbearer on Greek soil for the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) announced on Thursday.

The distinctive Cycladic architecture, the unique contrast of the blue Aegean with the reddish, black and white colors of the ...

Boxer Theagenes of Thasos was one of the towering sporting figures from the ancient Olympic Games who supposedly won 1,400 ...

The Greek Ministry of Culture praised the woman's 'sensitivity' and 'courage' during a repatriation ceremony at the site of ...

A tourist who stole a large chunk of an ancient Greek column in the 1960s has returned it more than half a century later. Greece's Ministry of Culture yesterday announced the repatriation of the ...

The legend of Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens to announce victory and collapsing may not be entirely accurate.