Cuneiform tablet dated 177 BC listing the rules for the royal game of Ur, or game of twenty squares, is a game of ancient Mesopotamia. It is known by two plateaux, discovered in royal tombs of Ur by Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. dated about 2600 BC. BC,

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