Boxing first appeared as a formal Olympic event in the 23rd Olympiad (688 bce), but fist-fighting contests must certainly have ☀️ had their origin in mankind's prehistory.
The earliest visual evidence for boxing appears in Sumerian relief carvings from the 3rd millennium ☀️ bce.
A relief sculpture from Egyptian Thebes (c.
1350 bce) shows both boxers and spectators.
The few extant Middle Eastern and Egyptian depictions ☀️ are of bare-fisted contests with, at most, a simple band supporting the wrist; the earliest evidence of the use of ☀️ gloves or hand coverings in boxing is a carved vase from Minoan Crete (c.
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