"Intricately carved tokens from a nearly 5,000-year old board game have been unearthed in southeast Turkey, reports Discovery News. The 49 found pieces may be the oldest gaming tokens ever recovered, and they should help to back the current theory that board games originated in the Middle East over five millennia ago. "Some [tokens] depict pigs, dogs, and pyramids, others feature round and bullet shapes," Haluk Sağlamtimur, a researcher with Ege University who helped to uncover the tokens, tells Discovery. The researchers also found dice and circular tokens among the pieces, which were painted in colors including black, blue, green, red, and white."

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/oldest-gaming-tokens-found-130814.htm
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/14/4622122/oldest-board-game-tokens-found-turkey

This post was edited by HeLiCaL on Aug 14 2013 10:35pm

Interesting...

Sounds like a fun game to play :D

"Go directly to the lime quarry, do not pass Go, do not collect 2 bags of grain".

thanks for the share sir, was interesting

lol seems great^^

ty for the share. that looks fun

Interesting, nice find!

I would really love to play the game if anyone actually figures out how to play it etc...

Deadly serious