Baseball in ancient Egypt

Thutmose [III] ruled Egypt during the 15th century B.C., and is the first known pharaoh to have depicted himself in a ritual known as "seker-hemat," which Peter A. Piccione has loosely translated as "batting the ball." "The word they use is `sequer,' which literally means `to strike' or `to hit,' " said Mr. Piccione, 51, an Egyptologist and professor of comparative ancient history at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, "but in the context, he's there with the bat. I translated it as `batting the ball.' "

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