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 ancient games date to 776 B.C., and they were hugely popular, carrying on until they were banned in A.D. 393 by Theodosius I, a Christian emperor, who considered the whole business part of a ...

Actress Mary Mina, playing high priestess, right, lights a torch during the official ceremony of the flame lighting for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site, Greece, Tuesday, April 16 ...

The torch will now travel on a 68-day relay before it arrives in the French capital, where it will set ablaze the Olympic Flame and signal the start of the Olympic Games on July 26, the report noted.

THE progress of civilization may be compared to the ancient torch-race. The nations have succeeded one another like the runners. As one sinks exhausted, another grasps the torch and carries it ...

An army helicopter hovered overhead. "It's a great honor to have the torch in Oman," Habib Macki, vice chairman of the Oman Olympic Committee, said ahead of the opening ceremony.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch was lit by the rays of the sun in ancient Olympia on Thursday to mark the final step towards the July 24-Aug 9 Games, currently in question because of the coronavirus ...

The London 2012 Olympics torch was lit by the sun's rays in ancient Olympia on Thursday, kicking off a relay that will culminate with the lighting of the Olympic stadium's cauldron during the ...

CHENGDU -- As a soft breeze drifted through the morning air, the torch relay for the World Games was held for the first time ...