Ancient Board Games in Perspective

Archaeologists and historians gathered at the Museum in September 1990 for what appears to have been the first ever academic gathering on board games of the ancient world. Vicissitudes clearly intervened between the act and the publication. The topics include the royal game of Ur, the Egyptian game of Senet and the migration of the soul, inscribed Roman gaming boards, pavement games of Greece and Roman, Go in China, board games and backgammon in ancient Indian sculpture, Mancala game boards as African emblems of status, and Robert Stewart Culin and New World games. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)