Roger Lebranchu who survived almost two years in Nazi concentration camps and was the oldest person to carry the Olympic ...

These beacons, which were simple prearranged signals, served as precursors to the telegraph. It was the Greek military scientist named Aeneas Tacticus who developed this ingenious method of ...

ATHENS--Greece's Olympic Committee said it had cancelled the remainder of the Olympic Torch relay through the country on Friday to avoid attracting crowds that could raise the risk of coronavirus ...

The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept ...

The modern Olympic torch was first used at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. Inspired by ancient Greece, the torch relay signals the start of the Olympic Games, with an objective of spreading peace ...