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Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/20/2015 11:25:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		'Pieces of a board game that hasn't been played for an estimated 1,500 years have been found in a tomb in China.'

http://www.cnet.com/news/lost-board-game-found-in-2300-year-old-tomb/




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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/21/2015 6:13:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		It may look like a tomb, but it's actually the basement of the dude's parents' house

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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/21/2015 5:08:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Fake. Its a 14 sided Chinese D&D die.

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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/21/2015 9:42:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		What an awesome historical find! It's too bad that human nature is so damn greedy and selfish.

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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/23/2015 6:40:40 AM   
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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/23/2015 7:05:40 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Zorch

'Pieces of a board game that hasn't been played for an estimated 1,500 years have been found in a tomb in China.'

http://www.cnet.com/news/lost-board-game-found-in-2300-year-old-tomb/



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I bet it was an East Front game.....


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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/23/2015 7:57:08 AM   
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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/23/2015 1:48:10 PM   
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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/23/2015 4:14:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Since some sides are squared and some have 6 sides. what are the odds of it falling on a square side?


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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/23/2015 8:07:46 PM   
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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/24/2015 10:55:24 AM   
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Maybe it's from the ancient version of D&D - with real dungeons.





Zorch You got that wrong. those are from possibly the first Christian dice game. The cross and Bird of peace. (HolySpirit.

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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/25/2015 9:50:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		You are all wrong... definitely from a prototype copy of Europa... still not completed after thousands of years

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RE: Lost board game found in 2,300-year-old tomb - 11/26/2015 7:37:27 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Zorch

'Pieces of a board game that hasn't been played for an estimated 1,500 years have been found in a tomb in China.'

http://www.cnet.com/news/lost-board-game-found-in-2300-year-old-tomb/




Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

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