A history of Board games

Here is a quick history on two of the oldest known board games:

The oldest board game discovered to far is (Not Sennet) 'The Royal Game of Ur'. Which was discovered in 1926 by Sir Leonard Woolley. The game was found in Royal tombs in Iraq and dates back to later than 2500 B.C.E. Among the wonders found within the tombs were four boards of the same basic design representing one game that was played by many classes of people in that society -- ranging from simple to richly worked pieces. It's not known whether UR was the first board game ever played but it's ancient enough that everything before it is pretty much guess-work.

Sennet dates back to 3100 B.C.E and as many people already now, is a game played by the ancient Egyptians. Sennet boards were discovered in the tombs of workers and Pharoahs alike. In this game of 30 squares set in three rows of 10, both player's pieces enter the board at one end of a row, proceed to the end, turn and go back down the middle at the end of which they turn again, drop to the final row and go back -- the object being to bear off all your pieces before your opponent does. Special spots on the board represent death and being turned away from the afterlife -- and rebirth to try again. The heiroglyph representing a Senet game is found honoring a king.