When Nike Was A God.(Brief Article)

From: Discover | Date: August 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Two thousand years before multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, top athletes in Greece were so revered they got star treatment even after death--although in life they took some hard knocks. Manfred Kunter, a physical anthropologist at the University of Giessen in Germany, uncovered evidence of the jock life in a cemetery near the city of Miletus, dating from between the fourth century B.C. to the first century A.D.

While examining more than 280 burials in the Miletus necropolis, Kunter noticed an odd pattern. The fancy stones and engravings indicated that this was a burial ...

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