The Royal Game of Ur is an ancient board game that dates back to the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago. The game is played on a board with seven squares and three rows, and two sets of seven pieces. Players take turns rolling a set of
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The Royal Game of Ur is a two-player strategy race board game of the tables family that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third millennium BC. The game was popular across the Middle East among people of all social strata, and boards for playing it have been found at locations as far away from Mesopotamia as Crete and Sri Lanka. One board, held by the British Museum, is dated to c. 2600 – c. 2400 BC, making it one of the oldest game boards in the world.