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Senet

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Senet (or Senat) is a board game from ancient Egypt whose original rules are the subject of conjecture. [1]

42 relations: Alexander de Voogt, American Museum of Natural History, Ancient Egypt, Board game, BoardGameGeek, Book of the Dead, Byblos, Cyprus, Dover Publications, Eddie Duggan, Egypt, Egyptian language, Espen Aarseth, Eurogamer, Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, First Dynasty of Egypt, Hesy-Ra, Hieroglyph, Holt McDougal, Levant, Mehen (game), Middle Kingdom of Egypt, Nefertari, New Kingdom of Egypt, Old Kingdom of Egypt, Oxford University Press, Patolli, Robert Charles Bell, Royal Game of Ur, Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, SourceForge, Tâb, Tel Arad, Third Dynasty of Egypt, University of Copenhagen, University of Suffolk, 1070s BC, 1550s BC, 25th century BC, 27th century BC, 31st century BC, 33rd century BC.

Alexander de Voogt

Alexander Johan de Voogt or simply Alex de Voogt (Baarn, May 3, 1970) is a Dutch researcher and associate professor at Drew University, working as an assistant curator of African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History and best known for his work on the logics of traditional mancala games.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River - geographically Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, in the place that is now occupied by the countries of Egypt and Sudan.

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Board game

A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.

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BoardGameGeek

BoardGameGeek is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 99,000 different tabletop games, including European-style board games, wargames, and card games.

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Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE.

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Byblos

Byblos, in Arabic Jbail (جبيل Lebanese Arabic pronunciation:; Phoenician: 𐤂𐤁𐤋 Gebal), is a Middle Eastern city on Levant coast in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon.

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Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

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Dover Publications

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche.

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Eddie Duggan

Eddie Duggan is a British photographer, film-maker, screenwriter, author and academic games historian.

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Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

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Egyptian language

The Egyptian language was spoken in ancient Egypt and was a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages.

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Espen Aarseth

Espen J. Aarseth (*1965 in Bergen, Norway) is a figure in the fields of video game studies and electronic literature.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a website focused on video game journalism, reviews, and other features.

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Fifth Dynasty of Egypt

The Fifth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty V) is often combined with Dynasties III, IV and VI under the group title the Old Kingdom.

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First Dynasty of Egypt

The First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (Dynasty I) covers the first series of Egyptian kings to rule over a unified Egypt.

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Hesy-Ra

Hesy-Ra (also read Hesy-Re and Hesire) was an Ancient Egyptian high official during the early 3rd dynasty.

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Hieroglyph

A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred writing") was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system.

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Holt McDougal

Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in secondary schools.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Mehen (game)

Mehen is a board game which was played in ancient Egypt.

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Middle Kingdom of Egypt

The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (also known as The Period of Reunification) is the period in the history of ancient Egypt between circa 2050 BC and 1710 BC, stretching from the reunification of Egypt under the impulse of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty.

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Nefertari

Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen and the first of the Great Royal Wives (or principal wives) of Ramesses the Great.

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New Kingdom of Egypt

The New Kingdom, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, is the period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC, covering the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties of Egypt.

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Old Kingdom of Egypt

The Old Kingdom, in ancient Egyptian history, is the period in the third millennium (c. 2686–2181 BC) also known as the 'Age of the Pyramids' or 'Age of the Pyramid Builders' as it includes the great 4th Dynasty when King Sneferu perfected the art of pyramid building and the pyramids of Giza were constructed under the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Patolli

Patolli or patole is one of the oldest known games in America.

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Robert Charles Bell

Robert Charles Bell (1917–2002) was the author of several books on board games, most importantly Board and Table Games 1 & 2 (reprinted as Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations).

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Royal Game of Ur

The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the Game of Twenty Squares or simply the Game of Ur, is a two-player strategy race board game that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third millennium BC.

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Sixth Dynasty of Egypt

The Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty VI) along with Dynasties III, IV and V constitute the Old Kingdom of Dynastic Egypt.

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SourceForge

SourceForge is a Web-based service that offers software developers a centralized online location to control and manage free and open-source software projects.

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Tâb

Tâb is the Egyptian name of a running-fight board game played in several Muslim (mostly Arab) countries, and a family of similar board games played in North Africa (as sîg) and Western Asia, from Iran to West Africa and from Turkey to Somalia, where a variant called deleb is played.

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Tel Arad

Tel Arad (תל ערד) is an archaeological tel, or mound, located west of the Dead Sea, about west of the modern Israeli city of Arad in an area surrounded by mountain ridges which is known as the Arad Plain.

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Third Dynasty of Egypt

The Third Dynasty of ancient Egypt is the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom.

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University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) (Københavns Universitet) is the oldest university and research institution in Denmark.

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University of Suffolk

The University of Suffolk is a public university in Suffolk, England.

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1070s BC

The 1070s BC is a decade which lasted from 1079 BC to 1070 BC.

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1550s BC

The 1550s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1559 BC to December 31, 1550 BC.

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25th century BC

The 25th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 2500 BC to 2401 BC.

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27th century BC

The 27th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 2700 BC to 2601 BC.

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31st century BC

The 31st century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3100 BC to 3001 BC.

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33rd century BC

The 33rd century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3300 BC to 3201 BC.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet

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