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Old Islamic Cairo
Board games are well represented in archaeological material. In Egypt, scenes depicting players exist on tomb walls (08.201.2a–g) and papyri. The four games most commonly found in those regions—Mehen, Senet, Twenty Squares, and Hounds and Jackals, which were sometimes closely associated and played on opposite sides of the same boards. There is evidence that several thousand years later the Egyptian Pharaohs were enjoying another board game that may be an ancestor of backgammon. Boards dating from 1500 BC. were found in King Tutankhamen’s tomb in the valley of the Nile, and even at Enkomi on Cyprus, then an Egyptian colony.
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