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Senet
Senet (or Senat〔(A History of Board Games )〕) is a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt. The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3100 BC.〔(In Search of the Meaning of Senet ) by Peter A. Piccione〕 The full name of the game in Egyptian was ''zn.t n.t ḥˁb'' meaning the "game of passing".
==History==
Senet is one of the oldest known board games. It has been found in predynastic and First Dynasty burials of Egypt,〔 c. 3500 BC and 3100 BC respectively. Senet is also featured in a painting from the tomb of Merknera (3300–2700 BC). Another painting of this ancient game is from the Third Dynasty tomb of Hesy (c. 2686–2613 BC). It is also depicted in a painting in the tomb of Rashepes (c. 2500 BC).
By the time of the New Kingdom in Egypt (1550–1077 BC), it had become a kind of talisman for the journey of the dead. Because of the element of luck in the game and the Egyptian belief in determinism, it was believed that a successful player was under the protection of the major gods of the national pantheon: Ra, Thoth, and sometimes Osiris. Consequently, Senet boards were often placed in the grave alongside other useful objects for the dangerous journey through the afterlife, and the game is referred to in Chapter XVII of the ''Book of the Dead''.
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