alt Hacker NewsAnother ancient board game to be decoded is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur. This is from 2600BC so is older to Christ than Christ is to us.
The videos on the game (and all his other videos) with Irving Finkel, a curator at the British museum, are spellbinding. He has the looks, manners and enthusiasm of an eccentric museum curator from central casting!
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timbit42 • yesterday at 8:40 PM
You mean Irving Finkel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Finkel
dyauspitr • yesterday at 9:42 PM
> A partial description in cuneiform of the rules of the Game of Ur as played in the second century BC has been preserved on a Babylonian clay tablet written by the scribe Itti-Marduk-balāṭu.
This is much more palatable and cool since they’re not just randomly guessing what the game can be like this article is
There's an online version to play that I find surprisingly addictive:
https://royalur.net/