For the first installment of our Ancient Games series, we're tackling the Royal Game of Ur from Mesopotamia! This is one of the oldest games in history, and the oldest one where we actually have a ...

The Sumerian Game is one of the earliest computer games. Developed and programmed between 1963 and 1965, it was designed to teach children math, economy and ancient history. The source code was ...

The Royal Game of Ur (for lack of a better name) was discovered in a tomb in Ur, an ancient city in Sumer, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern day Iraq. To play, you roll dice and ...

The post Recently Discovered Ancient Board Game Is 4000 Years Old appeared first on Nerdist. ... Mesopotamia and even the Eastern Mediterranean basin.

Ancient stone board game 'likely played in a similar way to backgammon' is discovered at a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age ... through Mesopotamia even to the Eastern Mediterranean,' said Piotr ...

At that time, the game was widespread across the ancient Middle East, including Egypt, Mesopotamia and Anatolia, he said. "It suddenly appears everywhere at the same time," Crist said.

For the first installment of our Ancient Games series, we're tackling the Royal Game of Ur from Mesopotamia! This is one of the oldest games in history, and the oldest one where we actually have a ...

The Sumerian Game is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was developed as part of a joint research project between the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of ...