Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to ...

Other inscriptions say things like “here is where scorpions are born” or this inscription over a largely empty Africa, “it is ...

This in turn comes from the Ancient Greek word, “drakon” which was ... nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin. Iron treats it like straw and bronze like rotten wood.” ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JOSHUA ZURBRICK: We didn't invent the javelin throw or the marathon or the 100-meter dash. The ancient Greeks did most of those. But we did invent hacky sack.

Astronaut Edgar Dean Mitchell's experience in space led him to found the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which explores the science behind psychic and spiritual phenomena.

Ancient Greeks lived in perhaps 1,000 autonomous communities stretching ... which combined religious celebration with athletic events, especially discus and javelin throwing, running, wrestling and ...

Goliath uses a spear, which reminded Ford of throwing a javelin ... in the heat of the filming locations in Greece, just as they would have in ancient times. "I found my robes quite comfortable ...

Also on one wall: A Kurdish tapestry he bought in Turkey in 1982 while on a scientific mission to find documents and artifacts of the Nestorians, an ancient ... threw a javelin, which got less ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JOSHUA ZURBRICK: We didn't invent the javelin throw or the marathon or the 100-meter dash. The ancient Greeks did most of those. But we did invent hacky sack. SIMON: ...