Sumerian Battles -
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The UR or "UR" game game is one of the oldest games in history. It is a game chase in the style of the Parchis, Oca, and many other games.
The rules of this game are completely unknown but if the rules of the game that was used at the year 177-176 AC in Babylon, where a tablet with cuneiform writing was discovered and with a board very similar to this where the instructions were explained.
British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley found several boards in the excavations he performed in around 1920 in the city of UR,
Capital of the Sumerians in the low Mesopotamia, current Iraq. These boards are estimated were created 4,500 years ago and it is believed that they were placed in the tombs so that the souls of the dead had entertainment.
In all the boards found, boxes decorated with rosetons appear following all of them the same pattern. There are even boards that only have some boxes decorated with rosettes and the rest are empty.
This has generated the doubt of whether there were different game rules, if those rosettes had some special meaning or if the other images were merely decorative, but the most accepted theories are inclined to think that they did have any value.
The meaning of the rosetons has also been discussed, they could be Casillas to avoid, perhaps boxes that sent you again to begin, or could mean a fine of money, also, it has been suggested that they be safe boxes, as well as the Parking Park and thus it is collected in the instructions of the real game of Ur of Games of Antiquity.
As the rules of the game are not clear, our game has been collecting the most widespread rules and those that make the game the most dynamic and fun.
One of these boards is preserved in the British Museum in London. It was made of wood with incacha, lazulita and red limestone in tar in tar or break.
