Post 2159: Bowl

DECO: MadPea Bowl-O-Rama

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The earliest known forms of bowling date back to ancient Egypt,[3] with wall drawings depicting bowling being found in a royal Egyptian tomb dated to 5200 B.C.[4] and miniature pins and balls in an Egyptian child's grave about 5200 B.C.[5] Remnants of bowling balls were found among artifacts in ancient Egypt going back to the Egyptian protodynastic period in 3200 BC.[6] Balls were made using the husks of grains, covered in a material such as leather, and bound with string. Other balls made of porcelain have also been found, indicating that these were rolled along the ground rather than thrown due to their size and weight.[6] Some of these resemble the modern day jack used in target bowl games. Bowling games of different forms are also noted by Herodotus as an invention of the Lydians in Asia Minor.

About 2,000 years ago, in the Roman Empire, a similar game evolved between Roman legionaries entailing the tossing of stone objects as close as possible to other stone objects, which eventually evolved into Italian Bocce, or outdoor bowling.

Around 400 AD, bowling began in Germany as a religious ritual to cleanse oneself from sin by rolling a rock into a club (kegel) representing the heathen, resulting in bowlers being called keglers.

Las formas más primitivas de boliche puede ser datadas en el antiguo Egipto y el imperio romano. Hace 2000 años un juego similar evolucionó entre las legiones romanas, éste implicaba lanzar objetos de piedra tan cerca como fuera posible de otros. Este juego se hizo popular entre soldados romanos, y finalmente evolucionó en el bocce italiano.

Las primeras reglas estandarizadas para boliche fueron establecidas en la ciudad de Nueva York el 9 de septiembre de 1894, 50 años después de la llegada a esos lugares. Actualmente este deporte lo practican 95 millones de personas en más de noventa países alrededor del mundo, y ha continuado su crecimiento a través del entretenimiento electrónico como los videojuegos.