Discover 4,000-year-old boardgame of ancient people

Many traces on the floor of an ancient herding tent in Azerbaijan show that this is Hounds and Jackals, one of the most famous board games of ancient times.

Traces of boardgame Hounds and Jackals.(Photo: Walter Crist).

According to ABC, the Walter Crist family from the American Museum of Natural History, also the author of an ancient Egyptian book about board games , discovered this trace when locals found odd traces. strange but don't understand what they mean. They reported back to the authorities later.

Hounds and Jackals, also known as '58 holes' , is an ancient game that is so popular in Egypt and Mesopotamia, that people even mention it in the famous film '10 commandments'. (The Ten Commandments) in 1956.

This finding is surprising because there has been no record of this game in Azerbaijan. Most likely, ancient farmers traded with traders from the East and bought a version of their game.

The image of Hounds and Jackals is recreated in the movie "Ten Commandments".(Photo: Kotaku).

However, the rules of Hounds and Jackals have been lost. All that can be surmised, this is probably the ancient version of the modern boardgame "backgammon & cribbage".