stick to cars bean pole 
ahhh, you disagree?
I have to find the stories, but there is the story of one of the Egyptian goddess, which is virtually identical to a story about Hera...pretty much each of the main societies built upon the other. Greek built upon the Egyptian, Roman upon the Greek...
And it is from the Egyptian that we get out modern day "fencing"
in terms of physique, it was the Egyptians that represented man in a broadshouldered, small waisted athletic build. Akhenaten, who ironically was monotheistic, was depicted as having a feminine phyisque, with wide hips and a slight belly---the first recorded "tranny"? He was related to King Tut...as most of the royal family bred with one another---a way of keeping it in the family...
Both the Egyptians the Greeks knew about "progressively loading" the muscles---ie, progressively lifting a heavier object to gain stregth...this was employed in the training regiments of ancient Olympic athletes.