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Earliest Gamblers?


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Hi,

 

I was wondering what the earliest documented example of gambling was.

 

we can look to the oldest known example of a game perhaps. :)

 

...3000 BC

 

Royal Game of Ur

Its name is derived from two board games found in tombs excavated in the 1920s, in the city of Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley. Game play is believed to have been similar to Backgammon, played with two sets (black and white) of seven markers and three pyramidal dice. ...

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