ODDBALL: 5000 Year Old Boardgame Unearthed in Turkey

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My friends - we come from a long strand of gaming humanity! A really, really long strand... via the New Scientist "Even in the Bronze Age there was more to life than work. Excavations at a burial site in south-east Turkey have revealed a set of 49 sculpted pieces that may once have been used in board games. They are among the oldest evidence of such games ever found. Haluk Sa?lamtimur at Ege University in ?zmir, Turkey, and colleagues made the find during excavations of a...

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