Ancient Olympic Games is a unique website, specially designed to spread the spirit of ancient Olympics to the masses. The History of Olympic Games was recorded first in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, Athens. The key principle of Olympic Games lies in rapture of life and merger of body, mind and will. The platform of ancient Olympic Games was rooted in on the idea- a four-yearly event of sporting activities as well as the termination of aggression among the city states in Greece.
The legendary games of Olympics was started by Heracles of Greece in 776 BC for encouraging a secular spirit of youth and cultural in Greece cities. The continued for twelve hundred years. But, Roman emperor Theodosius-I, a skeptic in Olympic Games stopped the practice. The game was restarted by Coubertin, a French aristocrat emphasizing on sports for cultural endorsement and ever since Olympics has obtained name and fame. The date of the first Modern Olympic Games was 1896 and it marked the beginning of an extraordinary escapade that has still been prevailing for over a century.
In 1894 International Olympic committee (IOC) was set up and they own Olympic Logos, Olympic flag and its design, the Motto, the Creed and the Anthem, signifying a particular meaning of each. The symbol of Olympic Games is the five interlinked rings in different hues and it represent the mutual unity of the five inhabited continents Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. The Olympic flag was taken on in 1914.
The Olympic Torch has its own meaning too. It symbolizes the spreading of peace message between the continents. The Olympic Torch goes up in flames for several months before the commencement of the main event. This flame is lit in front of the Temple of Hera at Olympic in Greece, depicting immortal relationship between ancient and modern Olympics.