1. The first primitive forms of bowling
Sir Flinders PetrieIn 1930 the British anthropologist Sir Flinders Petrie
and his team of archaeologists discovered all sorts of primitive bowling
balls, bowling pins and other materials in the grave of an Egyptian boy from
3200 BC. It appears that the ancient Egyptians played a primitive form of
bowling and that bowling is more than 5200 years old.
The German historicist William Pehle claimed that in 200 BC an ancient form
of bowling was played in his hom
