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The history of dice and dice games, dice tricks, and dice lore

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Gaming Dice History

History of dice infographic

Gaming Dice History

The guys at Awesome Dice have a fascinating article on the history of dice in gaming. They put together this pretty cool graphic that highlights the major finds in dice

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The world's oldest d20. The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates this one to the Ptolemaic Period between 304-30 BC. WOW!

The game of the Four Seasons: making 7-sided dice

St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: The game of the Four Seasons: making 7-sided dice

three dices with different designs on them, one is white and the other is brown

Unusual Set of Three Sailors Scrimshaw Gambling Dice

Unusual Set of Three Sailors Scrimshaw Gambling Dice (1800 to 1900 English) English)

four pieces of metal sitting on top of a brown floor next to each other with holes in them

Pompeii And Herculaneum

Roman City

Fairytale Illustration

Il Fauno Suite & SPA , camere con Jacuzzi, piscina, spa, Wifi

Dice from Pompeii

a painting of an animal with a hat on it's head sitting in front of a table

The Garden Of Earthly Delights

Hominis Aevum

Hieronymus Bosch, The garden of earthly delights, Hell panel (detail)

an old metal box with letters and numbers on the front, sitting next to two wooden dices

Museum of artifacts

Ancient roman dice tower used in the playing of dice games. 4th century AD, found in Germany

a pile of metal dices sitting on top of a white table

Twenty four small bone dice: 15th century

Title: Twenty four small bone dice: 15th century Description: Twenty four bone dice. These bone dice were found in a pewter container, they are all fraudulent (fights often broke out over gambling disputes). Three of these group of dice have the numbers one to three repeated, so one alway

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Serpentine twenty-sided dice from the Ptolemaic Period, Egypt. Letters from the Greek alphabet are inscribed on its twenty sides. There was no room left for the last four (phi, chi, psi and omega).

an image of some dices and buttons laying on the floor with it's lid open

Ancient Games

Ancient Sumerian

Cradle Of Civilization

A Sumerian board game and playing pieces made of shell, bone, lapis lazuli, and red limestone. They were found in the Royal Cemetery at Ur and dates back to the twenty-fifth century B.C.E. The game board measures about 10.5 inches long and 4.5 inches wide.

four dices are sitting next to a teapot on a white surface, and one is missing

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Back to Roman (AD 43 - AD 450) Title: Roman bone dice and shaker Description: Roman bone dice and shaker. Shaker is like a thimble with two pieces protruding. It is ornamented with a ring pattern with dots inside two concentric grooves.

an old black and white photo of two men in hats at a desk with another man looking on

19th Century craps table

three dominos with holes on them sitting in front of a black background and one has blue dots

Deer Antler Dice Set - Kashgar Tribal Artifacts

an old wooden box with some green knobs on the top and bottom, sitting on a table

New Kingdom - reign of Thutmose IV–Amenhotep III - ca. 1550–1295 B.C. - This wooden game box has two playing surfaces and throw sticks that were used as counters for determining moves in the game. The top surface is laid out with twenty squares. The bottom has thirty squares for the game "senet" (passing). In the New Kingdom, senet became associated with the underworld; the obstacles of the game corresponding to hazards met on the journey to the afterlife. Metropolitan Museum of Art

DICE

The history of dice and dice games, dice tricks, and dice lore

37 Pins

·7y

Gaming Dice History

History of dice infographic

Gaming Dice History

The guys at Awesome Dice have a fascinating article on the history of dice in gaming. They put together this pretty cool graphic that highlights the major finds in dice

ComicBook.com

The world's oldest d20. The Metropolitan Museum of Art dates this one to the Ptolemaic Period between 304-30 BC. WOW!

The game of the Four Seasons: making 7-sided dice

St. Thomas guild - medieval woodworking, furniture and other crafts: The game of the Four Seasons: making 7-sided dice

Unusual Set of Three Sailors Scrimshaw Gambling Dice

Unusual Set of Three Sailors Scrimshaw Gambling Dice (1800 to 1900 English) English)

Pompeii And Herculaneum

Roman City

Fairytale Illustration

Il Fauno Suite & SPA , camere con Jacuzzi, piscina, spa, Wifi

Dice from Pompeii

The Garden Of Earthly Delights

Hominis Aevum

Hieronymus Bosch, The garden of earthly delights, Hell panel (detail)

Museum of artifacts

Ancient roman dice tower used in the playing of dice games. 4th century AD, found in Germany

Twenty four small bone dice: 15th century

alainrichert

Serpentine twenty-sided dice from the Ptolemaic Period, Egypt. Letters from the Greek alphabet are inscribed on its twenty sides. There was no room left for the last four (phi, chi, psi and omega).

Ancient Games

Ancient Sumerian

Cradle Of Civilization