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2. Akrotiri Boxer Fresco - Wikipedia

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   It is a fresco depicting two young boys wearing boxing gloves and belts and dates back to the Bronze Age, 1700 BC. Around 1600 BC, a disastrous earthquake, followed by a volcanic eruption, covered Akrotiri , Greece in a thick layer of pumice and ash, which resulted in the remarkable conservation of frescoes, including the Akrotiri Boxer Fresco ...

3. Wall Paintings of Thera - Wikipedia

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   Akrotiri Frescos of Boxing Boys (Possibly Girls) and Gazelles in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.. The wall paintings of ancient Thera are famous frescoes discovered by Spyridon Marinatos at the excavations of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini (or Thera).

4. Sport in ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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   Birth of the Olympic Games in the Stadium at Olympia Stadion of Nemea Akrotiri Boxer Fresco from Thera. Athletics were an important part of the cultural life of Ancient Greeks. Depictions of boxing and bull-leaping can be found back to the Bronze Age. Buildings were created for the sole use of athletics including stadia, palaestrae, and gymnasiums.

5. Ancient Greek boxing - Wikipedia

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   Minoan youths boxing ca. 1500 BC, the earliest evidence for the use of gloves (Akrotiri fresco) There is archeological and artistic evidence of ancient Greek boxing (πύξ - pyx [1] or πυγμή - pygme [2] in Αncient Greek) as early as the Minoan and Mycenaean periods. There are numerous legends about the origins of boxing in Greece.

6. File:Young boxers fresco, Akrotiri, Greece.jpg - Wikipedia

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7. List of Aegean frescos - Wikipedia

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   Part of the same band as the Monkeys Fresco in the House of the Frescos; hence, also called the Monkeys and Blue Birds Fresco. Boar-hunt Fresco Wild boar-hunt fresco: Tiryns: Mycenaean: LH IIIB (13th century) Athens: Three spotted hounds with collars harry a boar in a field of plants while its head is being pierced from in front by a spear held ...

8. The Boxing Kangaroo - Wikipedia

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   The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a young boy boxing with a kangaroo. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at ...

9. Pablo Romero - Wikipedia

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   Pablo Romero (January 15, 1961) is a retired Cuban amateur boxer best known for winning two light-heavyweight gold medals at World Championships. The dominant light heavyweight boxer of the eighties he never participated in Olympics as his country boycotted both the 1984 and 1988 games.