The ancient game of Alquerque has origins tracing back to Egypt. An unfinished Alquerque board is seen cut on roofing slabs in a temple at Kurna, which was built around 1400BC. It is believed the game board, along with a few other boards discovered on the temple stones, was etched …
The ancient game of Bagh Chal is categorized as a hunt or chase game. The two-player game, originating in Nepal, has been challenging players for over a thousand years. Bagh Chal, meaning ‘moving Tiger’, consists of two unequal forces and includes 24 game pieces. One player maneuvers 4 tigers, while …
Ancient games are revealing snapshots into the past. They share enjoyments, activities, developments, and beliefs of the people who played them. Originating in India, Ashtapada, meaning eight square, refers to both the game board’s dimensions and the game played upon the sixty-four squares. The game is of a simple …
One the first known spiral track and multi-player board games of ancient Egypt was a game called Mehen. Mehen, meaning coiled one, was a name for both a god and board game in ancient Egypt. Researchers have been able to learn some about the god, Mehen, from Egyptian funerary texts. …
Beautifully carved ivory game pieces gave the commonly called game of Hounds and Jackals its name. Ten carved ivory pegs, with heads resembling five hounds and five jackals, were excavated from a tomb at Thebes by Howard Carter in the 1900’s. The original ivory board with its game pieces was …
The Royal Game of Ur or Game of Twenty Squares was unearthed in excavations in the 1920’s and is considered one the oldest complete board games. Soon following the incredible 1922 discovery of Senet board games in the Egyptian Tomb of King Tutankhamen, other fabulous game boards were found in …
Dating back to around 3500 BC the Egyptian board game of Senet is considered the oldest board game in the world. New archaeological excavations and discoveries take place every day so the unearthing of an older board game may yet be found. But as of now the oldest board game is …
