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Representations Of Gymnastics In Ancient Egypt : Religious conceptions, purpose to sport heritage

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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The ancient Egyptian participated in a variety of sports that are still performed today, thus he was familiar with both combative sports like boxing and wrestling as well as competitive sports like running and rowing. He was also familiar with ceremonial sports like gymnastics and pole climbing .Gymnastics is one of the world's oldest physical activities and sports and its roots can be traced back thousands of years, Gymnastics was most likely first depicted in Egyptians artifacts. The earliest known physical evidence of gymnastics can be found in the art of ancient Egypt, where female acrobats performed for the Pharaohs and the Egyptian nobility . this article highlight the representation with explaining to the positions of gymnastics,, purpose as a ceremonial sport which took place in the official festival , and concept as this sport has a religious concept and association with some myths of goddess hathor of gymnastics and its effect on the sport heritage in Egypt

DOI

10.21608/thalexu.2023.210146.1099

Keywords

gymnastics, concept, Hathor, Ceremonial, heritage

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salwa

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Abd el naem osman

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faculty of tourism and hotels , Alexandria university

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salwaosman138@gmail.com

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alexandria

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0009-0002-1853-9891

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Dina

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Ezz El-Din

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Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Tourist-guiding department. Alexandria University

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dinaezzeldin2012.dee@gmail.com

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الاسكندرية

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0000-0002-7127-1372

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Heba

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Magdy Khalil

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guiding department, Faculty of Tourism & Hotels, Alexandria University

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heba2magdy@yahoo.com

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الاسكندرية

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0000-0001-6992-6731

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20

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1

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42225

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2023-06-01

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2023-03-10

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2023-06-30

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47

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54

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2314-7024

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2682-2180

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The Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria University

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Representations Of Gymnastics In Ancient Egypt : Religious conceptions, purpose to sport heritage

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24 Dec 2024