On the 4th of December we went on a day trip to the British Museum where we spent the day learning about various board games that we were planning on writing about for our assessment. We toured around with Irving Finkle as he explained the various ancient board games that were on display such as The Royal Game of Ur.
We visited the many different areas that had board games relating to them, such as these two rock sculptures. At the base of them was a board game that was etched in to the stone.
I believe The Royal Game of Ur wasn't on display and a copy of it was instead. It was on loan to another museum but the fact we still saw a working copy was just as good. To be fair, if you really studied the pieces, it would seem as if it was the original set.
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