Though numerous works exist outlining the basic techniques of juggling, how-to books, there has been a remarkable paucity of information available about its history.
Similar problems exist with most of the great folk arts of the circus.
Though there is much information available through interviews with still active performers, such occupational history continues to be neglected. What follows is a brief attempt at such cultural salvage, in part with the hope of encouraging others to collect similar facts about other circus arts. The history of juggling is a long and fascinating one. The art has been with man in some form as long as civilization. There is evidence of jugglers during the great Egyptian civilization where it was imported from India.