For help with our studies on ancient games, we were told to visit the British Museum and look at certain exhibitions. Some of the main displays were of ancient game boards and pieces. The first displays we came across were of the lewis chessmen and tablemen from a precursor backgammon. In other cases we saw actual game boards from the Royal Game of Ur and Senet. These particularly gave us an insight to ancient board design.
The information gathered proved useful as we used it for our ancient game assignment and we also used the information to iterate game boards for our next design document assignment.
The board game from Ur was actually on loan during the period of our scheduled visit. In its place was a larger copy which, while it gives some sense of the appearance of the object, isn't quite as impressive as the original.
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