The Metropolitan Museum of Art returns to Greece an ancient griffin's head after determining that it was stolen from a Greek ...

While one legends claims the games were established by Heracles (Hercules), who brought a sacred olive tree to Olympia ... which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates) establish ...

The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later ...

Some of the most outstanding include 3,500-year-old palaces at Mycenae and Pylos; the incredibly well-preserved theater at Epidaurus; Olympia ... of Greece’s best wines,” explains Peloponnese ...

While one legends claims the games were established by Heracles (Hercules), who brought a sacred olive tree to Olympia ... which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates) establish ...

The Peloponnese is a large area on the southernmost tip of mainland Greece, an unspoiled region ... If you got Olympics fever ...

Greece on Tuesday saw more seismic activity in the southern region of Peloponnese and Cyclades islands, southern Aegean Sea. The seismic activity, which started in and around the islands of ...

In a quiet corner of mainland Greece ... of ancient Olympia. Ancient Messene must have seemed like a backwater in comparison — a waterlogged valley in the southwestern Peloponnese, huddled ...

It was originally discovered in a riverbed in Olympia, in the Peloponnese region of Greece, in 1914 by the curator of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia, but it went missing roughly two decades ...