https://www.iflscience.com/one-of-the-worlds-oldest-games-may-have-not-been-invented-in-ancient-egypt-after-all-74511
Does it have dice.....?
It seems to need something along the dice line. I must admit the description given suggests a more complex game than I had imagined, but as it says may have been played with different rules in different places - to this day my wife refuses to play backgammon with me because I play the rule book as opposed to the variation she was taught by her grandparents.
It looks very similar to the Royal Game of Ur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I) which was also a race game and used D4.
Backgammon incidentally is a descendant of the Ur game.
I had some difficulty with the geography on this one. To me, South-west Asia makes me think Arabian penninsular.
I don't think many people would equate the Southern Caucasus with Southwestern Asia, a term I have never encountered before.
Quote from: Keraunos on June 06, 2024, 11:43:07 AMI don't think many people would equate the Southern Caucasus with Southwestern Asia, a term I have never encountered before.
Strictly-speaking southwestern Asia is the Arabian peninsula.
Quote from: Keraunos on June 06, 2024, 11:43:07 AMI don't think many people would equate the Southern Caucasus with Southwestern Asia, a term I have never encountered before.
It's not that rare (https://www.britannica.com/place/Southwest-Asia) a usage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Asia).
Thanks Duncan. A very enlightening pair of links.