After Losing The Rules For 4,000 Years, We May Know How To Play This Ancient Board Game

IFL Science ^ | December 11, 2024 | James Felton

[Red Badger]

Ping!.....................

[ClearCase_guy]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

Putin isn’t going to like that map.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Trump’s opening gambit.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My first thought was it looked like backgammon. I used to be addicted to it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger, and while checking for other topics, found one I'd missed, thanks BenLurkin! I still think there's another relatively recent one.

• The Best Board Games of the Ancient World [02/10/2020]
• Ah, here it is: Ancient Discovery Could Be a Board Game From 4,000 Years Ago [09/23/2024]

[Red Badger]

I knew someone who was..................

[HYPOCRACY]

It will suck you into an alternate reality.

[Red Badger]

Well this one ain’t so hot.................🙄

[HYPOCRACY]

[Retrofitted]

So.. they still don’t know the rules. They just cobbled it together. That’s it. I’m sticking to Senet. ;)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Is it (with the rules) available on-line?

[Billthedrill]

For this game, the rules were written down on a cuneiform tablet.

The problem is that the cuneiform tablet couldn't get an Internet connection in Ur.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its like tennis you just can’t stop. 😆

[Red Badger]

This was a girl that was insane over it..............

[SunkenCiv]

Since 1979 he's been trawling the Museum’s 130,000 clay tablets for clues about life in ancient Mesopotamia. In this film, he tells us about a particular tablet he found that contains the rules of a board game – a board game that he’s been obsessed with since childhood!

Deciphering the world's oldest rule book
Irving Finkel | Curator's Corner S1 Ep1 [PILOT] | 7:02 | The British Museum | 688K subscribers | 1,006,556 views | November 23, 2015

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Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur
PLAYTHROUGH
International Tabletop Day 2017 | 25:32
The British Museum | 688K subscribers | 7,267,462 views | April 28, 2017

[gnarledmaw]

Someone with more writing skills that my own should come up with a cartoon featuring a Irving Finkel caricature. I see him as being sort of a cross between a geriatric Indiana Jones and a Mr McGoo type personality in that he is always working on things but not really realizing the importance of the discovery and then kind of mix that around with that happy smiling personality he always seems to have.

I think it would be hilarious anyway.

He might even be willing to help. Did you see his piece with Diane Morgan on “Cunk on Earth”? They really worked well together. Some of those people I dont think really fully understand but he really added a lot to that segment.