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 ...

I read with fascination your article on museum curator Irving Finkel and his research into the Royal Game of Ur [June 30-July 7]. But Finkel’s claim that Monopoly introduced the last ...

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.

Once played by Egyptian Pharaohs and Mesopotamian Kings, the Royal Game of Ur is given a new lease of life in Iraq.

Ancient Egyptians had senet and Mesopotamians had the Royal Game of Ur. Chessmen have marched for hundreds of years across boards in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. People are still tangling ...

For the Royal Game of Ur, the rules were written down on a cuneiform tablet. It was determined to be a racing strategy game played with dice, although it is still open to interpretation.

Board games have a very long history: Senet, generally considered the oldest board game in the world, dates to Predynastic Egypt (c. 3,100 BCE), while the Royal Game of Ur comes from Ancient ...