[HN Gopher] Archaeologists find 500-year-old board game carved i...
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Archaeologists find 500-year-old board game carved in ruins of
Polish castle
Author : isaacfrond
Score : 73 points
Date : 2023-09-20 07:27 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| noelwelsh wrote:
| It's always nice to find a modern example of an ancient practice.
| E.g. ~3000 years old board scratched in stone in Assyria
| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35669056
| a_e_k wrote:
| This is one of my favorite things to see whenever I visit the
| British Museum. I just love the mental image of bored guards
| playing a game to pass the time on a slow afternoon at the city
| gates.
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| Similarly, I enjoyed once seeing the preserved birch bark
| doodles of a schoolboy named Onfim from ~800 years ago:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim
| readyplayernull wrote:
| Ohh cool! I remember playing this as a minigame in Sierra's Robin
| Hood, starts at 1:53:23
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| https://youtube.com/watch?v=j5C_aL6Fx4Q
| cf100clunk wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_men's_morris
| ogrrr wrote:
| It's a bit weird reading a description of the rules in the post.
| Always thought, this was as well known as chess or checkers.
| codetrotter wrote:
| Never heard of this game before.
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| Is it still a common game to play?
| SamBam wrote:
| In my english elementary school there were definitely nine
| men's morris boards, but I've never seen anyone play it
| outside of elementary school.
| jovial_cavalier wrote:
| It's not too uncommon. Nintendo included it in their
| collection of tabletop games for the switch.
| crtasm wrote:
| Source: https://arkeonews.net/500-year-old-board-game-discovered-
| car...
|
| ...which came from the Polish source https://www.national-
| geographic.pl/artykul/planszowka-sprzed...
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