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The key differences between the Royal Game of Ur and the Shahr-i Sokhta version are the many different pieces, and the lack of “rosettes” denoting certain board spaces as special. Source: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/kctnj / CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
16 DEC 2024 · 5 MIN

Shahr-i Sokhta: How to Play the Oldest Board Game in the World, Iranian Edition

In 1922 the British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley discovered something unexpected during his excavation of the Royal Cemetery of Ur, in Mesopotamia. Amidst the grave goods and treasures he uncovered a rectangular…

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