What game is 5000 years old?
Ancient history The Royal Game of Ur from 2600 BC may also be an ancestor or intermediate of modern-day table games like backgammon and is the oldest game for which rules have been handed down. It used tetrahedral dice. The earliest known dice, unearthed in the Indus Valley, date back to around 3000 BCE. Dice-like predecessors made of sheep bones were found in a tomb in modern-day Iran, dating to around 6000 BCE. A single dice, called a die, is a polyhedron, most traditionally a six-sided cube with spots on each side.Dice have been used in games throughout the history of civilization, from ancient Egypt and Sumeria to dice for Dungeons & Dragons. BCE: Earliest hieroglyphics representing Senet boards found. Senet uses 2-sided playing pieces for randomization.