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 ...

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 ...

After arm wrestling made its long-awaited debut at the African Games, Armwrestling Federation of Africa President Charles ...

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 ...