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Researchers have translated an ancient Greek document from 267 AD, which talks about an ancient wrestling match that was fixed, Live Science reports. The document is a contract between the guarantors of two teenage wrestlers, Nicantinous and Demetrius, who reached the final stage of a prestigious series of games that were held in Antinopolis, Egypt. In it the father of Nicantinous pledges to pay Demetrius 3,800 drachma if he allows Nicantinous to win. It is the first record of a bribe for game fixing to be found in the ancient world. The ancient contract was first discovered over a century ago at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt by an expedition team led by archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt. It was translated