ArchaeologyEnglish · 5 days ago

Researchers finally uncover how to play the 4,000-year-old Shahr-i Sokhta board game

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Researchers finally uncover how to play the 4,000-year-old Shahr-i Sokhta board game

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ArchaeologyEnglish · 5 days ago

In 1977, archaeologists at the Bronze Age cemetery of Shahr-i Sokhta, Iran, discovered a 4,500-year-old board game in a richly adorned grave

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Different games. Finkel plays the Royal Game of Ur.
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  I know, but it looks like a related/similar game
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    Literally the same board

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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