Today we went on a class trip to the British museum, we spent the day looking at the various ancient games that the museum had on display that we had been learning about through the course of the first term. The game i was most looking forward to seeing was The Royal Game of Ur as this is the game i had most enjoyed playing in lessons and i thought it would be cool to see it in its original form.
Unfortunately the original version of The Game of Ur was not on display as the museum had loaned it out to another museum so that that they could have it on display.
We were shown around the museum by a rather interesting man called Irving Finkel who is a scholar and curator of the museum and a very knowledgeable man when it comes to ancient games, having Finkel show us around the displays the the trip as a whole more enjoyable as he gave great insight into the games we looked at.
Overall the trip was very enjoyable and being able to see the games we had played in class in their original forms as really cool.
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