My wife's favourite dessert is crème brûlée, so much so it was the crowning glory of our wedding breakfast. And she's mad on anything almondy - you know, cherry bakewell, marzipan and the like. So ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the frontrunner of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece. Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Olympics in ...

Used to mark the beginning of the Olympic Games, its origin derives from the ancient Olympics, where a sacred flame was kept burning in the Temple of Hera at Olympia. With the flame returning to the ...

In the morning drive into the countryside through fields of orange trees to visit the site of the temple of Hera in Argos ... Visit the archaeological site of Olympia. Explore the Stadium, the Temples ...

The site of ancient Olympia, a vast complex of temples, shrines, stadiums and theaters, as seen from the north. The stadium, the temple of Hera, and the temple of Zeus can be seen. The line of trees, ...

Phidias’s Olympia workshop, divided into three naves ... II of Macedon to commemorate his victory at Chaeronea, the temple of Hera, and the temple of Zeus, the central focus housing the massive ...

Washington state Chief Justice Steven González is glad to be back in Olympia’s Temple of Justice. The homecoming came at a good time. For about two years, the historic structure that houses the ...

The breadth of the ruins alone is impressive—everywhere you look you’ll find the rounded tip of a stupa or the hidden entrance of a tiny temple with a golden Buddha ... The archaeological site of ...

Hera was known primarily as the goddess ... The Heraia, a festival held at Olympia, featured athletic competitions among women, and in Samos, her supposed birthplace, a grand temple was erected in her ...

The infant DionysusThe infant Dionysis is portrayed in a fourth-century B.C. statue by Praxiteles from the Temple of Hera at Olympia. Album/DEA Picture Library Fruit of the vineA youthful Dionysus ...

“The temple of Hera at Olympia provided the best example of an older wooden Doric architecture in the midst of the hypothesized conversion to stone,” says Sapirstein. Using thousands of ...

The games are held at the site of Olympia, very close to the city of ... before the games begin and placed on an altar in the temple of Hera. The winning athletes marched in procession from ...