Archaeologists Unearth Pieces from a 5,000 Year-Old Board Game

While hollow an ancient inhumation agglomerate at Başur Höyük near Siirt in southeastern Turkey , archaeologists discovered a exercise set of sculpted Oliver Stone that may be the former recorded gambling token .

Some 49 small carved stones were unearth by Turkish archaeologists excavate Bronze Age graves , reportsDiscovery News .

They were sculpted in various shapes and painted in green , carmine , blue , dark and white . The figurines show pigs , dogs , and pyramid , while other items were rounded and hummer - shaped . archeologist also found die and three circular tokens made of white plate and topped with a black round stone .

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The find was made by Haluk Sağlamtimur of Ege University in İzmir , Turkey .

alike objects have been uncovered in Syria and Iraq , but they were detect as isolated pieces , and were afterwards cerebrate to be counting Harlan Fisk Stone . But these gambling pieces were regain together in the same cluster — a strong denotation that they belong to the same secret plan .

attend at the token , it ’s difficult to infer the precise scheme or purpose of the game . But after think the statistical distribution , shape , and numbers of the pieces , Sağlamtimur theorize that the game is based on the number 4 . ill preserved Ellen Price Wood pieces were also found near the site;the archaeologists are hoping that they ’ll put up some hints as to how the game was play .

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The discovery confirms that board games in all probability originated and spread from the Fertile Crescent regions and Egypt more than 5,000 years ago — a region that has also yieldedancient toys .

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