The Royal Game of Ur is a 5000-year old Mesopotamian strategy board game which is wonderfully easy to learn. Download free for iPad the high-quality reconstruction of a game board from 2600 B.C ...

How to Play the Royal Game of Ur. Deb Amlen Reporting for NYT Games. A player must roll the exact number needed to move the piece off. Here, Player 1 must roll a 1 in order to remove this final piece.

Unearthing the Oldest Board Game on Record. The original name of this ancient game has been lost to time, but it was dubbed the Royal Game of Ur after a British archaeologist named Sir Leonard ...

The Royal Game of Ur is a board game thought to be played as early as 2600BC. The Lost Game seeks to restore this ancient tradition with a twist.

Humans have entertained themselves with board games for thousands of years. Some, like chess and go, continue to be played ...

The Royal Game of Ur, from Ur, southern Iraq, which is dated to about 2600-2400 B.C. The board game found at the site of Shahr-i Sokhta in Iran (not pictured) ...

Though similar to another game from the time called the Royal Game of Ur, there were enough differences that made it hard to know the precise rules.

A Grammy award-winning rapper and a visiting scholar at MIT, Lupe Fiasco led an event for Harvard Law School affiliates to learn about the Royal Game of Ur this March. By Courtesy of Stella A. Gilbert ...

Although the Royal Game of Ur is unlikely to supplant Twilight Struggle in our household (the latter is a thrilling game of cold war intrigue for two players in which I prefer to play as the USSR ...