Senet is the oldest board game known to have existed, and was pictured in a fresco found in Merknera's tomb ( 3300 – 2700 BC ).

* c. 3500 BC: Senet is played in Predynastic Egypt as evidenced by its inclusion in burial sites ; also depicted in the tomb of Merknera.

Senet ( or Senat ) is a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt.

Senet is one of the oldest known board games in the world.

Senet is also featured in a painting from the tomb of Merknera ( 3300 – 2700 BC ) ( see external links below ).

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.

The Senet gameboard is a grid of thirty squares, arranged in three rows of ten.

The game is mentioned in the 1972 film version the play Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, when the character Andrew Wyke refers to " an intensely complicated 4th dynasty blocking game called Senet.

Senet is played in the TV show Lost in the episode Across the Sea.

* Senet is one of the oldest known board games in the world.

His queen is not known ; although recently a certain ' king's wife ' named Senet has been proposed.

It is published by J. J. de Senet in the Corpus chronicorum Flandriae.

The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3100 BC.

** c. 3500 BC: Senet, world's oldest -( confirmed ) board game

The two boards date from the First Dynasty of Ur, before 2600 BC, thus making the Royal Game of Ur one of the older examples of board gaming equipment found, although Senet boards found in Egyptian graves predate it as much as 900 years.

The ancient Egyptians played a game called Senet, which belonged to the same family of " race games " as modern tables games, with moves controlled by the roll of dice.

* Senet has been found in Predynastic and First Dynasty burials of Egypt, c. 3500 BC and 3100 BC respectively.

* c. 2500 BC: Paintings of Senet and Han being played depicted in the tomb of Rashepes

Senet historians Timothy Kendall and R. C.

These rules have been adopted by different companies which make Senet sets for sale today.

In Rick Riordan's The Throne of Fire, Carter and Sadie Kane and Bes play Senet against the moon god Khonsu.

In the popular 1999 video game Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, the player ( playing as series heroine Lara Croft ), must play a game of Senet in order to advance through the Tomb of Semerkhet level.

In House of Anubis, Nina Martin ( portrayed by Nathalia Ramos ) and her friends must play a game of Senet to get through the final chamber of the underground tunnels to reach the Mask of Anubis.

In the Nancy Drew game Tomb of the Lost Queen, you can play Senet against a computer player, it even gives you an award if you play Senet a number of times.

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( These are similar to those used in the Egyptian board-game Senet.

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