The Royal Game of Ur: How to Play the Oldest Board Game on Record For 4,600 years, a mysterious game slept in the dust of southern Iraq, largely forgotten.

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. The board is entirely customizable, allowing ...

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 ...

Play the oldest board game in existence with me! This game from ancient Mesopotamia is an exciting, unpredictable race to get your pieces to the end of the board before your opponent does. It’s ...

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 (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.

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) is dated to around the ...

Royal Game of Ur inlaid with shell, carnelian, and lapis lazuli from around 2600 BCE. ( Mary Harrsch/Flickr/CC-BY-SA 2.0 ) Players rated their experience of the rules against a similar game.

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.

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 ...