Senet game
One of the world’s oldest board games: a box with thirty squares and a drawer for the pieces.
Senet was played in Egypt for over two thousand years and took on religious meaning as the journey through the underworld. Several sets were in Tutankhamun’s tomb. Examples are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Metropolitan Museum and the British Museum.
Materials: Ebony, ivory, gold
Manufacture: The box was veneered and inlaid; the pieces turned, with throwing sticks instead of dice.
The three rows of ten squares and the marked squares near the end.
The box with a drawer – the game stores itself.