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 ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Olympics is spending the night ... when the champagne-colored torch travels to Delphi, an important ancient Greek religious center, before ...

Per tradition, the torch was lit on April 15 in Olympia, Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the ...

Greek actress Mary Mina will play the role of the High Priestess that will use a parabolic polished mirror at the Temple of Hera to make sun rays light the Olympic torch. The team had to pit in ...

The whereabouts of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic torch meant to be on display at an Athenian Olympics museum remains a mystery.

Mystery surrounds the absence of Melbourne’s 1956 Olympic torch from a world-renowned display at the birthplace of the Modern ...

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 ...