{"id":562,"date":"2014-08-21T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=562"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:12:31","slug":"blurb-5000-year-old-game-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Blurb &#8211; 5000 Year Old Game Tokens."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A post at <a title=\"Discovery.com\" href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/history\/archaeology\/oldest-gaming-tokens-found-130814.htm\" target=\"_blank\">news.discovery.com<\/a>\u00a0reports that\u00a0Ege University&#8217;s Haluk Sa\u011flamtimur presented a remarkable find of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0808b0;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/history\/archaeology\/oldest-gaming-tokens-found-130814.htm\">5,000-year-old gaming tokens<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0found in a Bronze Age burial mound at Ba\u015fur H\u00f6y\u00fck in Turkey. They take a variety of forms (&#8220;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&#8221;) and suggest a game based in some way on the number four.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1.gaming-stones1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-563\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1.gaming-stones1-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"5000 Year Old Game Tokens\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1.gaming-stones1-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1.gaming-stones1-350x230.jpg 350w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1.gaming-stones1.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">5000 Year Old Game Tokens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #383838;\">&#8220;Dating from the First Dynasty of Ur, around 2550-2400 B.C., the boards were associated with the &#8220;Game of Twenty Squares,&#8221; 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.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can read more just follow the link above!<\/p>\n<p>Later Nerds!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post at news.discovery.com\u00a0reports that\u00a0Ege University&#8217;s Haluk Sa\u011flamtimur presented a remarkable find of\u00a05,000-year-old gaming tokens\u00a0found in a Bronze Age burial mound at Ba\u015fur H\u00f6y\u00fck in Turkey. They take a variety of forms (&#8220;Some depict pigs, dogs and pyramids, others feature round and bullet shapes. We also found dice as well as three circular tokens made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}