MMA FROM AFRICA??..NOT JUST THE FIRST SCIENTIST, ENGINEERS, AN MATHEMATICIANS..BUT THE 1ST TO CREATE & MASTER THE ART OF 'KICKING ASS'.-OK17 The origins of mixed martial arts and martial arts in general can be found in this statement by Masutatsu Oyama in his book "Advanced Karate" published by Japan Publications in 1969, "The oldest known records concerning combat techniques, hieroglyphic scrolls from Egyptian tombs date as far back as 4000 B.C. describing military training fights similar to boxing (Ngumi) and wrestling (Mkazo Ncha Shikana) ." Making ancient Egypt or (Kemet) the first record of martial arts in general and making martial arts a part of the curriculum of the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries. Second we have the Olympiad of 564 B.C. and the pankration found in the Olympic games of 648 B.C. Then there are the gladiators of Rome. "For many years scholars maintained that the Greeks were unique among the peoples of the ancient world because they alone had known sports competition." "By 1932 at the latest, every scholar should have known that the ancient Egyptians regularly organized such competitions for a select public. In that year the wrestling and stick fighting scenes from the funerary temple of Ramesses III in Medinet Habu were published in an exemplary edition. The oldest written account of a military contest is preserved in one of the masterworks of Egyptian literature, the Story of Sinuhe." Wolfgang Deckers book "Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt." Herodotus the father of Greek history states, that long before Rameses II, ruled both Egypt and Ethiopia, perhaps as far back as 8000 B.C., boxing and wrestling was introduced to Egypt from Ethiopia. There are a host of wrestling scenes which first appear in the Old Kingdom tomb of Ptahhotep (2300 B.C.) through the time of the New Kingdom (2000-1085 B.C.). Nubian wrestlers appear at least five times in Egyptian art. The Egyptians consistently use the term “Nubian” in a collective sense, referring to all brown or black-skinned peoples to their south. picture: top-wrestling, hand striking, kicking maneuvers (Teke)walls of the Beni Hasan Tomb bottom-Wrestling match at Shawia village. Photo: David Stewart-Smith (1995
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