Historians were able to reconstruct the games rules based on a partial cuneiform tablet from Babylon dating from — BCE. Mehen is another board game from Ancient Egypt and it is believed to be the earliest example of a multi-player board game.
The game is named for Mehen, a snake-god, and the gameboard is shaped like a coiled snake. The pieces come in two types: small spheres similar to marbles and ivory pieces in the shapes of lions and lionesses.
Backgammon is another ancient game that is even older than Chess. In , archaeologists discovered a gameboard in the ancient city of Shahr-e Sukhteh in Iran resembling the game of Backgammon. The board was dated to around BCE and is believed to be the oldest Backgammon board ever found.
It is made of ebony and features sixty markers made of turquoise and agate, as well as a pair of dice. Checkers also called Draughts is one of the oldest board games in the world that is still played today.
The origins of the game can be traced back to the ancient city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia modern-day Iraq , dating back to about BCE. A game board resembling Checkers with slight variations was carbon dated to this time period. The game has remained popular all around the world and the first World Championship in International draughts began in and took place in France.
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Silver Rings. Wedding rings Womens rings Mens rings. People then carved these bones into dice, with six-sided dice rolling well. It was not long until people started using these dice for entertainment, with dice games like backgammon. Close to the site where Sir Woolley found the ancient Sumerian boards, another board was found with two sets of playing pieces and dice underneath it, showing that they were used to play the game.
Backgammon boards have also been found in ancient Egypt, dating back to 1, BC, equipped with a device used to roll dice to prevent people from cheating as the game was likely used for gambling. A form of the game known as nard became popular in ancient Persia, where, according to the Persian poet Ferdowsi, a 6 th -century Persian physician introduced it to an Indian raja, who in turn introduced the physician to chess.
Forms of the game were also popular in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, helping to spread the game into Europe. It was known as tabula in Latin and tavli in Greek, meaning tables, with this still being the word used to describe the game in Greece. It is the Roman form of the game that is the descendent of backgammon as it is typically played today.
Forms of the game are also believed to have spread into East Asia, where it was known as shuanglu in China and ban-sugoroku in Japan, before being replaced in popularity by games like xiangqi and go.
Pachisi , which developed in India, may also be a descendent of backgammon. As backgammon spread in Medieval Europe, it was swiftly banned in some countries like 13 th -century France for its associations with gambling.
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