The Original Olympic Games. The olympic games began over 2,700 years ago. The olympic games as we know them today began in april of 1896 in athens, where the city welcomed 13 nations to compete, but this video is going way back to the year 776 bce and it's going to explore the origin and history of the ancient olympic games.
Read the fascinating history of the olympics, including rituals and origins of the ancient greek olympics. The first known olympics were held in the summer of 776 b.c.