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by wickedwillie on May 10th, 2004

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What is the oldest known board game recorded in history?

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  • by anguilla on May 12th, 2004

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    Chronology of Board Games
    ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Board_Games

    2560 BC
    Board of the ROYAL GAME OF UR (found at Ur Tombs)

    2500 BC
    Paintings of SENET and HAN being played made in the tomb of Rashepes.

    2000 BC
    Drawing in a tomb at Benihassan depicting an two unknown board games being played (depicted in Falkner). It has been suggested that the second of these is TAU.

    1400 BC
    Game boards including ALQUERQUE, THREE MEN'S MORRIS, NINE MEN'S MORRIS, and a possible MANCALA board etched on the roof of the Kurna Temple. (Source: Fiske, and Bell)

    200 BC
    A GO board pre-dating 200 BC was found in 1954 in Wangdu County. This board is now in Beijing Historical Museum. (Source: John Fairbairn's Go in Ancient China).

    1 BC-8 AD
    Ovid's Ars Amatoria contains the first reference to LUDUS DUODECIM SCRIPTORUM and the smaller merels.

    220-265
    NARD enters China under the name t'shu-p'u (Source: Hun Tsun Sii)

    1100
    Invention of DRAUGHTS (source: Bell)

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