1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound
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1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound
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#2We changed the URL from https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/05/1700-yea... to one that is almost identical but has more information. Is archaeologynewsnetwork a blogspam site? Or was this a case of both articles working off some press release?
Re: 1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound
#3Dice, not dices!
Re: 1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound
#4We changed the URL from https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/05/1700-yea... to one that is almost identical but has more information. Is archaeologynewsnetwork a blogspam site? Or was this a case of both articles working off some press release?
I honestly don't know. I just posted the one I encountered. But after some googling, this seems to be the original source: https://www.uib.no/en/culturalhistory/135652/gaming-roman-ir...
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#5Dice, not dices!
unless you are referring to multiple sets of distinct dice.
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#6It was Diplomacy. They still haven't finished the game.
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#7It was Diplomacy. They still haven't finished the game.
Very nice observation
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#8Very cool!
Re: 1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound
#9> they found a set of roman dice for a game
mono-polis?
Re: 1,700-Year-Old Board Game Found in Norwegian Burial Mound
#10Don't know what drove them to say it is an early form of Hnefatafl, other than that both are games played on a board. Hnefatafl games (there are several [1]) are pure strategy open information games using different pieces with different moves. This discovery is of a game played with dice and apparently identical pieces. There are no pictures of the board. so I can only speculate about it, but my guess would be this game is probably a race game, perhaps a distant relative of backgammon.