This board game has n’t been play for 1,500 age . No one is quite sure of its rules , although it depend like the kind of game that could summona lion and a bearded Robin Williams .
The game was found in a 2,300 - year - old tomb in Qingzhou City , China . Inside the tomb , Chinese archeologists find a skeletal system , 21 orthogonal game pieces and a broken roofing tile beautify with paintings of boom and clouds . Perhaps most excitingly , they also found a 14 - faced die . The dice , chip at out of an brute ’s tooth , is labeled with numbers in an ancient Chinese nomenclature called " seal script . "
Experts believe the relics are from a two - player secret plan called"bo " or " liubo"that was played up until around 1,500 years ago .
The rules of the plot still remain a mystery . However , as explicate byLive Science , a 2,200 - class - old poem by a man cite Song Yu , translated by David Hawkes , gives some impression what it entail :
" Then , with bamboo die and tusk slice , the biz of Liu Bo is begun ; face are taken ; they advance together ; keenly they threaten each other . Pieces are kinged , and the scoring doubled . outcry of ' five clean ! ' rise . "
Archeologists also uncover 26 barb , probably the result of despoiler , that were dig to get into the grave . In one of these shafts , the team discovered a skeletal frame , lead them to believe this once belonged to a very unfortunate grave robber .
The grandiosity and size of the grave suggest that it was the rest seat for some of the rich and privileged residents of this ancient Taiwanese country . At the time , China comprised several warring State Department ; this period ended around the 3rd C BCE , when the all - conqueringQin Shi Huangdi , from the state of Qin , coordinated China and became the first emperor moth .
The site was first excavated in 2004 by a team of archeologists from the Qingzhou Municipal Museum and Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology . The findings were discuss in Chinese in the journal Wenwu in 2014 . However , they were only recently read into English and published in the journalChinese Cultural Relics .
[ H / T : Live Science ]
