hist-games: Indian War-games mwi9 at swipnet.se Thu Nov 10
21:47:20 PST 2005 Den 2005-11-11 04:40:04 skrev <SEDWilkins at
aol.com>: > Mats writes: >> Why on earth did they inscribe the
game patterns on the roofing >> slabs? They did this in India,
too. >Probably the roofing tiles spent a lot of time stacked on
the ground waiting > to be used, and were a handy surface to
play on during lunch and break time . > . . after all, no one
would see them up close once the building was done. > Sports and
Games of Medieval Cultures But what about the roofing slabs of
the temple at Kurna in Egypt (1400BC)? How come, nowadays,
egyptologists think that these images are relatively recent,
belonging to the Islamic period, as Ulrich points out?
Apparently egyptologists think that these patterns were
inscribed long after the tiles were put into place, or do these
tiles derive from renovations of later date? More information
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