> the oldest known board game is an Egyptian game that dates back to 3100 BCE called Senet. “We almost never have the rules for these early games,” Browne said.

> the oldest known board game is an Egyptian game that dates back to 3100 BCE called Senet. “We almost never have the rules for these early games,” Browne said. “The rules have never been recorded, so our knowledge is largely based on historian’s reconstructions.” I live near the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, CA. The group behind it owns the whole square city block, so besides the museum itself there's also a research library, other related buildings, and a nice park area all around. Included in the park space is a reconstruction of the Senet game, along with an approximate reconstruction of the rules; it's explained that the rules are an approximation with a rough reason as to why. Whether the rules were simply "lost to time" or due to a subset of this as "they were never written down because everyone knew them" I'm not sure, but it was nice to see the game available in person.