The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, together with Microsoft and the digital cultural heritage company Iconem have unveiled a digital reconstruction of ancient Olympia, the site of the original ...

OLYMPIA, Greece, Nov. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced Ancient Olympia: Common Grounds, a new collaboration to digitally ...

OLYMPIA, Greece — What would it be like to walk around the ancient religious sanctuary of Olympia when the Olympic Games were held? An unusual partnership between Microsoft and Greece’s Ministry of ...

(RTTNews) - The Greek Government and Microsoft have set out to digitally preserve and restore ancient Olympia, the original home of the Olympic games, for future generations by harnessing technologies ...

At a temple in Ancient Olympia, a flame is drawn from the sun to begin its journey to the Winter Games. The choreographed ...

The torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been ...

The Olympic flame was lit at the birthplace of the Games in Greece on Tuesday in a ceremony rich with ancient traditions that will launch a torch relay culminating in Paris on July 26. The flame was ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece, April 16 (Reuters) - The torch for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was lit in ancient Olympia in a traditional ceremony on Tuesday, marking the final stretch of the seven-year ...