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 ...
Two players must compete to move all their pieces from the start zone to the finish zone. The squares on the left and right sides of the board belong to each player, but the middle strip is in contest ...
The Royal Game of Ur is one of the oldest board games known to archaeology. Well-conserved remains of boards, along with a description of the game rules have been found in the 1920s in Mesopotamia.
Around 1,000 years later, between 2600 BC and 2400 BC came the Royal Game of Ur – which David describes as “the earliest known game for which we have enough evidence.” Originally played in ...
Many ancient board games have been discovered, but there are no rulebooks so we don't know how to play them. Now AI is bringing these games back to life by working out likely rules ...