This papyrus, found in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and dating to A.D. 267, is apparently the first known bribery contract in ancient sports. In the text, recently deciphered, translated and interpreted by ...

Wrestling is the world's oldest sport with evidence suggesting bare-handed combat was contested more than 5,000 years ago in Egypt. The Olympic concept was conceived in 708 BC and the first record of ...

NAGOYA, Japan — In a sport steeped in ancient rituals and Japanese tradition ... adjusting to life in the elite sumo ranks, the young Egyptian does have a unique problem at the 15-day Nagoya ...

Wrestling and combat sports were also performed in ancient Egypt, as demonstrated by two notable artistic examples. The best known is a collection of over 200 painted scenes of male wrestlers and ...

(Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images/File) Egypt's Olympic committee says Tokyo bronze medal-winning wrestler Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed will be investigated by the sport's governing body for an alleged ...

One of the organizers of Thursday's spectacle in the Egyptian capital, Dawlet Elnakeb, who runs a sports company, said Mahrous trained — but not very consistently — for just 20 days before the ...