The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games, consider this: It all started with a simple ...

It was originally discovered in a river bed in Olympia, in the Peloponnese region of Greece, in 1914 by the curator of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia, but it went missing roughly two decades ...

The cast-bronze sculpture, which has been on display at the entrance to the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries since 1999, was previously in the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

The artifact was discovered in 1914, when the curator of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia stumbled upon it in the bed of the Kladeos River in Olympia. It was housed at the museum before its ...

This follows new provenance research that suggests the artifact was probably stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in the 1930s. The object will be loaned back to the Met from Greece ...