The Royal Game of Ur is a 5000-year old Mesopotamian strategy board game which is wonderfully easy to learn. Download free for iPad the high-quality reconstruction of a game board from 2600 B.C ...

Summary The Royal Game of Ur is an ancient racing game where players try to get all of their tokens across the board first. 3000 years ago this was one of the most popular board games in the world.

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For the first installment of our Ancient Games series, we're tackling the Royal Game of Ur from Mesopotamia! This is one of the oldest games in history, and the oldest one where we actually have a ...

The Royal Game of Ur, from Ur, southern Iraq, which is dated to about 2600-2400 B.C. The board game found at the site of Shahr-i Sokhta in Iran (not pictured) is dated to around the ...

Royal Game of Ur inlaid with shell, carnelian, and lapis lazuli from around 2600 BCE. (Mary Harrsch/Flickr/CC-BY-SA 2.0) ...

Knucklebones were certainly used for divination, as was the Game of Ur, and while the rules of Senet are uncertain, it appears to have links with the Egyptian journey into the afterlife.

The oldest tabletop game ever discovered — the Royal Game of Ur, played in ancient Sumer — dates to circa 2,600-2,400 B.C.

In a classroom in Jones Hall, students in the Near Eastern Humanities sequence partner up to compete in the Royal Game of Ur. Originating in Mesopotamia in the early third millennium B.C.E., the ...

For the first installment of our Ancient Games series, we're tackling the Royal Game of Ur from Mesopotamia! This is one of the oldest games in history, and the oldest one where we actually have a ...