There are many types of ancient boardgames discovered from excavations in Iran.
Type A1 and type A2
First group, I called them type A1 and type A2. This types have 20 point in them.
Type A1 Boards have been shaped like Animals (Birds and Scorpions).
But type A2 is more abstracted and geometrical.
In this type, many different checkers is added to the games. you can recognize 2 set of dices and 4 types of checkers.
Type B
It seems that in this type, It's the same game as type A but different bearing off or coming in game for checkers. Still, they have 20 points to play through.
Type C
In this type, the board games are completely changed. Now we have different point numbers, different shapes, different qualities and all this boards are rectangular.
Type D
From this type, I found only one picture. It's from a silver bowl made about 1500 year ago, during Sasanid period. It shows two players lied down and play on a board with at least 16 points.From now on we can officially call the game "Backgammon"!
Next time, I'm going to compare these types, and then propose how to play with them.
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