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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

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

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