Sports

Sports exist probably as long as human beings exist and in the earliest of times have served as a mediating source between the environment and humans in their endeavor to improve their mastery handling the nature. Social changes have strongly impacted sports, which seems to integrate basic human capacities exercised for their own usefulness.

30,000 year old discoveries from France, Africa and Australia, established by examining the carbon, suggest that in those times ritual ceremonies were widely practiced. Pprehistoric cave art is one of the more substantial evidences for this. Drawings, discovered in the Libyan Desert from the stone-age period depict swimmers and athletes with archery.

Discovery of these art pieces shores up the idea that even in these days people were engaged in their physical skills beyond the scope of their primary functional purpose. Though it’s not enough of an indication that sport was sport as we know it today, it certainly suggests that there was some related activity very much akin to sports.

The history shows that wrestling and archery were common since the very ancient times. Sport has assumed a more organized structure, discipline like in the Ancient Olympics. These were later upgraded to a competitive level performed on the arena.

The Ancient Egypt also sheds some light on whereabouts of sports at this period of time, suggesting that swimming and fishing were quite popular. This is not surprising given a grand role allotted for Nile, regarded as the life of Egypt.