Friday 5 December 2014

Gateway Games

A group of first year games-design students visited The British Museum as part of their study of ancient games. Irving Finkel met the group and pointed out some interesting artefacts. Here, the group is looking at a graffito game board, scratched into the base of the giant winged bull statue about 3,000  years ago. The statue is one of a pair of guardians at the entrance of the palace of King Sargon II (721-750 BC) in the Assyrian capital Dur-Sharrukin (present-day Khorsabad, near Mosul, in Iraq).

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