Her recent fascination with board games came after learning about Irving Finkel’s groundbreaking work on the Royal Game of Ur. The British Museum curator was the first to translate the rules of the ...

Opens in theatres June 20 There is a cute scene in The Hobby: Tales From The Tabletop, a quirky documentary about board games and the people who obsessively play them and others who design them.

There’s archaeological proof. The Royal Game of Ur, which I’ve seen on display in the British Museum, dates to 2600 B.C. The game is a race between two players, but the appeal is in its use as ...

Ζatrikion and the Mesopotamian board game Historians and archaeologists have tried to decipher the exact way that the game is played. Zatrikion has been compared to the Royal Game of Ur, the oldest ...

What Is the Royal Game of Ur Between 1922 and 1934, the Royal Cemetery at Ur was excavated by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley. He discovered five sets of a mystery board game, that dated ...

What is the oldest playable board game in the world? Answer: The Royal Game of Ur. It dates back to around 2600-2400 BC. We would love to hear from you!

They would be the 6,000-year old Royal Game of Ur and Ancient Egypt's senet, and the search for a Rosetta Stone that would explain the rules is a fascinating tale on its own.

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

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 ...

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 ...