Bas Relief,KeretÃzein AKA Hockey,600 BC
Bas relief circa 600 BC,in the National Archeological Museum of Athens. Games played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures. In Egypt,4000 year old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile,hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland,and there is a depiction from approximately 600 BC in Ancient Greece,where the game may have been called keretÃzein because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick.
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