February
10
/ 2020
An ancient Egyptian board game that was similar to Ludo or backgammon is offering new insights into ancient religious beliefs. It was not only a game, but it was seen as a way for the dead to interact with the living and represented the ba’s (aspect of the soul) journey in the afterlife. A study of a board in an American Museum may show the moment that a simple game became the ‘game of death’. Humans have been playing games for millennia and the ancient Egyptians, in particular, loved their games. The most popular was the game senet (‘game of death’), which was played by all sections of Egyptian society, even by the pharaohs and their queens. It was popular
