Play the oldest board game in existence with me! This game from ancient Mesopotamia is an exciting, unpredictable race to get your pieces to the end of the board before your opponent does.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Lost Game: Royal Game of Ur The Royal Game of Ur is a board game thought to be played as early as 2600BC. The Lost Game seeks to restore this ...

It is assumed that the game pieces are complete. 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 ...

Though similar to another game from the time called the Royal Game of Ur, there were enough differences that made it hard to ...

Nearly half a century after its discovery, researchers from the United Kingdom and Iran proposed a set of rules for a 4,000-year-old board game unearthed in southeastern Iran. The game, found at ...

In Mesopotamia, people would spend their leisure hours fishing and playing board games e.g., the famous "The Royal Game of Ur." The Renaissance saw an emergence of flourishing artists, painters ...

War, Peace, and Sacrifice Known as the Standard of Ur, this box is held at the British Museum. It depicts scenes of peace on one side (above) and war on the other. It was found in a royal tomb ...

It's thought the game may be a precursor to the 'Royal Game of Ur' Enough with the war video games, says Marin Hollis, former chief creator of the great first-person shooter GoldenEye ...