On the 4th of December we visited the British Museum. The aim of the trip was to see the ancient games in there collection. We were privileged enough to be shown around by Irving Finkel. Who is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures at the museum.
The games we got to see included The royal game of UR, Tabula and hnefetafl. Which are all ancient games we had been studying for our course. It was interesting to see the games in person but being able to here Finkel talk about these games was an honour as he is one of the leading expert on ancient games. So i would like to thank him for taking the time to show us around and answer our questions.
After seeing these games I also had a chance to look at other areas of the museum such as the Japanese exhibition. Which was also really interesting.
I enjoyed the trip to the museum and would defiantly like to return to see the other exhibitions that I did not have chance to see.
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