Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

For the final post in the series on Ancient Egyptian Games I’ve collected a bunch of games that can be played online and put them all together here on one page. You can also purchase games for your computer from the Ancient Egyptian Games Shop. Senet: You can read all about the ancient Egyptian game [...]

The ancient Egyptian game of Aseb, also known as ‘The Twenty Squares game’ is one of the oldest known games dating back to about 3000 BC. Boards from the 17th Dynasty have been found, evidence that the game was played for thousands of years. It is sometimes found on the underside of Senet boards and [...]

Faulkner’s Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian gives the translation of the word ‘Mehen’ as literally meaning “coil” and is used in reference to the goddess Mehen, or ‘Coiled One’, and also the board game called Mehen. Mehen was a serpent god who’s coils encircled and protected Afu-Ra’s shrine. I am this one who escaped from [...]

Hounds and Jackals is a bit like Senet but instead of moving pieces on a board like Senet, the players plug hound-headed and jackal-headed pegs into holes in the board. Thought to be the origin of the modern game of Snakes & Ladders, Hounds and Jackals was also known as the ‘Game of 58 Holes’ [...]

Games were, and still are, very popular in Egypt. Today locals in almost every coffee shop in Egypt are playing backgammon everyday. I couldn’t believe how popular the game was when I walked around Cairo for the first time. They play at lightning speed too! Well, backgammon is very similar to an Ancient Egyptian game [...]

“There was nothing diminutive about the 200-by-200-foot miniature set on “10,000 BC.” The bigger you build it, the better you can build it,” Grüninger says. “The sheer size makes it easier to add the necessary amount of detail and that allows the camera to go closer and closer. It’s easier to get the depth of [...]

The BBC has a fun and educational game for children to learn about the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and how they were built. It’s really quite authentic. The picture below, for example, shows the stage where you select the angle for your pyramid and the accompanying hieroglyphic writing is from plate 16 of the Rhind Mathematical [...]