Senet is the oldest known board game and dates back to ancient Egypt. The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3100 BC. The name of the game translates to “game of passing”. King Tutankhamun’s tomb, excavated in 1922, contained a number of gaming boards for the game of Senet.
Senet boards were rectangular slabs made of wood, limestone, or faience (ceramic earthenware made from ground quartz and coated with a brightly colored glaze and featured carved squares and symbols.
Although historians aren’t quite sure how exactly the game was played, Timothy Kendall and R.C. Bell have made their own reconstructions of the game. Kendall and Bell’s rules are based on pieces of texts mentioning Senet and these rules have been adopted by modern senet players.
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