13. Overall Senet

The Game of Senet

This is the game i will be editing thought my course work and so this is a very important game.
Overall the game of Senet is my favorite game out of the Three games we have been mainly studying. Therefor there will need to be a lot of studying for the games history.

 One of the oldest known board games. Which was discovered in the Ancient Egyptian times around (3100 AD) and was very advanced for its time. Only the rich and higher class people of the time would be able to play this game or even own a copy of the game. The Egyptians would like the games so much that they would even try to take them into the afterlife with them requesting that when they die that they go in the tombs along beside all there other favorite possessions. Once the tombs where found more than 5000 years later board pieces ether fragments or full pieces have been excavated from the site and put onto display in a museum or stolen by people along the way though out time by grave robbers never to be discovered or never properly understood if found again later in time as they would be away from the original game set. There was never any records of the rules being discovered for the game when excavated most likely because the game was written on a fine silk cloth material which would have deteriorate over the years leaving nothing more than dust and fine granules also if the rules where still intact they would be written in Egyptian hieroglyphics so still today no one know how the game could have been truly player unless very well interpreted. Other than the fact that there was hieroglyphics on the walls of the tombs potentially saying how you could have play the game this is basically it for the Egyptians trying to tell us the rules. This is the same for the wooden game board unfortunately just completely rotted away only the outlines of the board edges remained for the archaeologists to see later on. Therefore there was not much we have to go on for the history of the rules and how the spaces on the board my have truly been. On the other hand there obviously has been a lot of reaches done into this and we are a lot more advanced technology today then 5000 years ago so understanding the rules was entirely possible but this can just never be proven that these are the correct method of play just reconstructed methods.

Overall i feel the game is very competitive when playing and its the best out of the three games. There is nothing quite like this game...