{"id":46738,"date":"2018-12-10T18:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/10\/4000-year-old-game-board-carved-into-the-earth\/"},"modified":"2018-12-10T18:47:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:47:01","slug":"4000-year-old-game-board-carved-into-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/10\/4000-year-old-game-board-carved-into-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"4,000-Year-Old Game Board Carved into the Earth Shows How Nomads Had Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A pattern of small holes cut into the floor of an ancient rock shelter in Azerbaijan shows that one of the world\u2019s most ancient board games was played there by nomadic herders around 4,000 years ago, according to an archaeologist who has investigated the find.<\/p>\n

Walter Crist, a research associate with the American Museum of Natural History in New York, visited the rock shelter in a national park in Azerbaijan last year, searching for traces of the ancient game now known as \u201c58 Holes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The game is also sometimes called \u201cHounds and Jackals.\u201d British archaeologist Howard Carter found a game set with playing pieces fashioned like those animals in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenemhat IV, who lived in the 18th century B.C.<\/p>\n

The distinctive pattern of round pits scored in the rock of the shelter in Azerbaijan came from that same game, Crist told Live Science. But the Azerbaijan version may be even older than the game set found in the pharaoh\u2019s tomb. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

archaeologicalnews: A pattern of small holes cut into the floor of an ancient rock shelter in Azerbaijan shows that one of the world\u2019s most ancient board games was played there by nomadic herders around 4,000 years ago, according to an archaeologist who has investigated the find. Walter Crist, a research associate with the American Museum … Continue reading “4,000-Year-Old Game Board Carved into the Earth Shows How Nomads Had Fun”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}