The Temple of Hera at Olympia, 1913. From “The Near East,” by Robert Hitchens. (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913). Artist Unknown. Photo: The Print Collector/Getty Images.

The temple of Hera at Olympia, or the Heraion, dates to around 600 B.C. and is one of the oldest surviving Greek stone Doric temples. In his Description of Greece, ...

Held at the Temple of Hera, the ceremony features the lighting of the Olympic flame using a parabolic mirror and the sun's rays. This symbolic act signifies the start of the Olympic Games, linking ...

Standing in front of the ruined Temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia, a Greek actress playing the High Priestess used a concave mirror to focus the sun's rays on a silver torch, causing the fire to ...

Notwithstanding the bad weather, a good-sized audience assembled in the Fogg Museum last night to hear Dr. Dorpfeld's second lecture on recent excavations at Olympia. The substance of his address ...

Berenice Abbot, James Joyce, 1928, Gelatin silver print, Museum of Modern Art, New York. The International Center for Photography, reopening and “The Lower East Side: Selections from the ICP ...

Flame for Turin winter Olympics lit in Ancient Olympia (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-11-28 09:49. ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece--High Priestess Theodora Siarkou here on Sunday lighted the Olympic torch with a ...

The flame for the London Olympics, which was ignited by the rays of the sun in the 2,800-year-old Temple of Hera in Greece, arrives in the UK Saturday. It was carried from Olympia in a lantern ...

The countdown the Olympic Games in London has begun with the lighting of the Olympic flame at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece, where the ancient Games took place.