About the history of The Royal Game of Ur: In the 1920s, British Museum’s archaeologist Sir Leonard Wooley (1880-1960) found two of these game boards in the city of Ur. There is evidence that ...

While we’re being advised not to pass dice and game ... Royal Cemetery of Ur in Iraq in the early 20th Century. Initially, no-one knew how the game was played before Irving Finkel, a British ...