A CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORY: THE ROYAL GAME OF UR

THE ARTS SOCIETY GUERNSEY - LECTURE

A CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORY: THE ROYAL GAME OF UR
Lecturer: Irving Finkel

The most successful board game of antiquity (2600 BC), a beautiful set of ancient rules (177 BC) and a world encompassing narrative. The game survived, unnoticed, in south-west India until modern times.

Irving Finkel is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is currently the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures at the British Museum, specialising in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia. He is on the Editorial Board of Board Game Studies.

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