"Bronze Age stone game board found in Oman" Topic

"Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw's Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA UW) in collaboration with Oman's Ministry of Heritage and Tourism are excavating the Qumayrah Valley in the mountains of northern Oman to explore the remains of Bronze Age and Iron Age campsites, graves, dwellings and tower structures were identified there in previous surveys. The most recent fieldwork season, which concluded in December, unearthed a large building from the Umm an-Nar period (2500-2000 B.C.). Inside one of its rooms was the stone game board.

The board was engraved with a rectangular grid of two rows of seven surviving columns. Inside each square of the grid is a shallow cup-hole style depression. The stone is broken at one end, damaging the seventh square on the top row. Games boards of this type have been found at Bronze Age sites in India, Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean. They are extremely rare, and usually found at important economic centers…"

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Armand

Hope they find the rules! Maybe I can beat my 11 year old grandson in this game. Or, maybe not ;)

there are at least 7 different rule sets for the game scattered around the dig…

And none of the pieces are in scale.

Ha!….

Armand

…and a temple wall covered with arguments about the turn sequence.

I always wish we had the rules for these, but most of them turn out to be tic-tac-toe variants or chutes and ladders.

(smile)

Armand