Ancient wrestling match was fixed

A Greek document showing that a wrestling match taking place in Egypt in A.D. 267 was fixed has been published by Professor Dominic Rathbone.  The first document to be found which records such a bribe, the contract between two teenagers who had reached the final bout of a series of games shows the father of one of the contestants agreeing to pay a fee to the guarantors of his opponent.

Found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt over a hundred years ago, the contract was published for the first time in the most recent volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, an ongoing series that publishes papyri from this site.  The Egypt Exploration Society owns more than 500,000 papyrus fragments from this site, and they are now kept at the Sackler Library at Oxford.

For more details of the discovery please see the Live Science website.