August 21

Blurb – 5000 Year Old Game Tokens.

A post at news.discovery.com reports that Ege University’s Haluk Sağlamtimur presented a remarkable find of 5,000-year-old gaming tokens found in a Bronze Age burial mound at Başur Höyük in Turkey. They take a variety of forms (“Some depict pigs, dogs and pyramids, others feature round and bullet shapes. We also found dice as well as three circular tokens made of white shell and topped with a black round stone”) and suggest a game based in some way on the number four.

5000 Year Old Game Tokens
5000 Year Old Game Tokens

“Dating from the First Dynasty of Ur, around 2550-2400 B.C., the boards were associated with the “Game of Twenty Squares,” a board game played around 3000 B.C. Beautiful tokens related to the game were found arranged in a row, with the colors alternating, in another Ur tomb. The set consisted of seven shell roundels inlaid with of five lapis lazuli dots and seven roundels of black shale inlaid with five dots of white shell.” 

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Later Nerds!

 


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Posted August 21, 2014 by Richard Keen in category "Games

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