Posts Tagged ‘ancient board games’
Board games history: the Viking game of Tafl
Posted by: Luk on: November 5, 2009
The Tafl is an ancient Viking board game and also one of the oldest board games ever invented.
Talfl board game is the Nordic answer to the game of chess, but its board is larger and the high number of odds leads to a high number of variants to be considered at every move; this [...]
Board games history: the game of the goose in the Renaissance
Posted by: Luk on: September 10, 2009
In 1640, a new board game called “Game of the goose” appeared for the first time.
The game of the goose was published in Venice (Italy) by Carlo Coriandoli. The first stamp of this game represents a family sitting at the table covered with food off all kind with a big roasted goose in the centre.
The [...]
Board games history: The Royal Game of Ur in Mesopotamia
Posted by: Luk on: July 7, 2009
In 1920 British archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, during some excavations in the Royal Cemetery of Ur in Mesopotamia, found the rests of a Royal tomb full of ancient and beautiful finds.
In this mausoleum Wodley discovered several incredibly well conserved exemplars of an ancient board game.
This artefact was called the Royal Game of Ur and [...]
Board games history: Senet the Egyptians ancestor of chess.
Posted by: Luk on: May 2, 2009
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Board games have millennial history and have been played in a lot of cultures and societies.
The oldest board game in the world is Senet appeared in ancient Egypt in 3300 b.C.
Senet was very popular in the land of Pharaohs, especially among nobles and rich people, like this unique exemplar of this mysterious board game, inscribed [...]
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