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The Royal Game of Ur is the oldest known board game with surviving boards and preserved rules. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia, it spread widely across the Near East and Mediterranean.

In the 1970s, in a grave in a Bronze Age cemetery in Shahr-i Sokhta, Iran, an incredible object was unearthed next to a human skull: the oldest complete board game ever discovered. Around 4500 years ...

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