Item #M0447a Yale University, Yale, 1992. First edition. In-8, 212 pages. Blue cloth with dust-jacket. Excellent condition. Sports and games of ancient Egypt. [Wolfgang Decker] -- 'Two thousand years before the first Olympic games were held in ancient Greece, sports played a significant cultural and social role in ancient Egypt.

Read Wolfgang Decker, Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt text version Book Reviews 153 Wolfgang Decker, Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt, trans. By A Guttmann. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1992. Illus., index, notes. Wolfgang Decker's book provides us with the most comprehensive examination of physical activity in ancient Egypt, an area which has generally been under-researched by sports historians.

Gpib Card Driver Vista 32. Conflict Desert Storm 3 Full Version Pc Game. Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt brings the study of `sport' in ancient Egypt from the periphery, where it has languished for the last two decades, into the mainstream of sports history. After an initial wave of descriptive histories of ancient sport in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a dearth of penetrating analyses on sport in ancient Egypt. Egyptian sport's marginal position in the field was partly the result of a traditional Euro-centric examination of sport in antiquity focusing on Greek and Roman physical activity and its subsequent influence on Western civilisation. This marginalisation was compounded by the complexity and technical demand of the ancient Egyptian material. The study of sport in this civilisation rested outside the traditional foci of Egyptology, yet beyond the technical capabilities of many sports historians. Decker's book contributes significantly to the integration of sports history with the field of Egyptology.