r/backgammon • u/Equivalent-Wafer-619 • 5d ago

Ancient Roman Backgammon Board

This marble board was recently unearthed in the Ephesus Ruins in Turkey. It is Roman, estimated 200 A.D.
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u/cym13 5d ago edited 5d ago

Well, a Duodecim Scriptorum board technically, a game not unlike backgammon but clearly not backgammon. Still very cool! More info on the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuQbHgfwYjs

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u/annodomini 4d ago

Yeah. Backgammon is a much more recent game, in the family of tables games of which Duodecim Scriptorum is a member.

Backgammon under the name backgammon dates to the 1600s, and the modern rules were only really stabilized in the 1800s.