The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games, consider this: It all started with a simple ...

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 ...

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 first games took place at Olympia – a small town on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece – around 776BE and continued to take place every four years for nearly twelve centuries. Sorry Cheryl.

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 ...

We were in the southern Peloponnese, on our final day of exploring its beaches and mountain towns. My grandparents left this wild coastal region of Greece just before my mother was born ...

It was originally discovered in a river bed 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 ...