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The history of Olympic Games.
The centuries-old glorious historical path of the Olympic Games has not yet been shared by any civilization or state. The age of the ancient Olympics (776 BC to 393 BC) is 1170 years, compared to the age of Western Rome (844 years) and the Russian Empire (196).
The 293rd Olympic Games, held in 393 AD, were the last of the centuries-old games. In 394, Feodosius I strictly banned these games. He wrote his name in the history of mankind with his bad deeds, such as canceling the great sports festival with ancient history and burning the library of Alexandria. 30 years later, Theodosius II destroyed the Olympic temples. After the earthquakes of 551 and 552, the ruins of Olympia remained underground.
The search for the extinct Olympian civilization of the ancient Greeks is a wonderful subject for novels and screenplays.
Here the roles are played by the colorful figures who first discovered the secrets of Olympia: antique lovers, adventurous treasure hunters, world-renowned scientists and simple, ordinary workers working in the field of archaeology. The secrets of ancient Olympia were lost in the deep layers of the earth for a long time. But no! They began to remember it in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, even if they did not know exactly where it was located. Until then, it was assumed that the temple of the sacred Zeus and the place where the Hellenic games were held were at the feet of Olympus.
But who and when disturbed the tranquility of the vanished world of Olympia?
On June 4, 1723, monk-Benedict Bernard Montfacon, who was familiar with Pavsani's "Description of Hellas" and author of articles on ancient wonders of the world, informed the Bishop of Corfu that there are valuable treasures - statues, reliefs, plates and monuments - in the land of Olympia. .
It is likely that the French monk got hold of the Venetian map of 1516, which confirmed the facts about the Quicay valley and its treasures. Although the monk suggested that the archbishop be interested in the mystery of the Peloponnesus, the other did not agree to this, as he was wary of touching the sacred monuments of the pagans.
In 1764, the German Johann Joachim Winckelmann's book "History of the Art of
Antiquity", published in the Weimar printing house, soon resonated throughout the German state and its principalities. The book also mentioned the possibility of other finds in Olympia along with the ancient stadium.
Winkelman's book was not a small success. However, the book did not bring the expected financial result for the excavation work.
Despite this, he developed a plan to excavate the city of Olympia and managed to get permission from the ruling circles of Turkey, calculating the financial costs for the implementation of this plan in gold coins. However, in 1768 he was killed by robbers in one of the Trieste hotels, so Winckelmann could not realize his plan to conduct excavations on the banks of the
Alpheus River. In 1766, Oxford archaeologist Richard Chapdler, while traveling to the
Peloponnese, found on the left bank of the Claudius river, the remains of the walls of a huge temple used as building material by the local population, the remains of the colonies built by the Dorians.
In 1787, Fauvel, the French consul in Athens, discovered the location of the temple of Zeus during an excursion to Olympia. In 1821-1824, the Greeks' struggle for freedom and independence against Turkey allowed Europe to talk about the mysterious and magical Hellas, the homeland of legends, democracy, Homer's beautiful works, and the Olympic Games.
On May 9, 1829, the honor of conducting the first scientific excavations was finally awarded to the soldiers of General Mason, who carried out the liberation mission in Greece after the naval battle of Navarre in 1827, rather than scientists and diggers. However, the excavation work was not led by the general, but by the French scientists Dubois and Blue.
The French expedition began to conduct the first excavations in the temple of Zeus. On the west side of the temple, they discovered plaques depicting the 12 types of heroism of Hercules, and on the eastern facade, fragments of relief images of horses depicting the duel between Oenomai and Pelops. The findings were sent to France via the Alpheus River.

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