On Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics will be lit at ... An actress playing an ancient Greek priestess holds a silver torch containing highly combustible materials over a ...
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 whereabouts of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic torch meant to be on display at an Athenian Olympics museum remains a mystery. And our resident Greek reporter is on the case. Subtle enough to the ...
But one of them was definitely not an Olympic torch. I wonder if you can tell us ... We know it was made, obviously, 1988, travelled from Olympia in Greece where the procession started and then ...
A BBC Antiques Roadshow expert was on hand to value a guest's Olympic torch which he carried almost 40 years ago, making his childhood dreams come true.