Egyptian Senet

Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt Game).The Mysterious Afterlife Journey And The Favorite Pastime Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun.The Artifact Of The World's Oldest Board Game Found In King Tut's Tomb, Beside The Golden Coffin & Sarcophagus.After performing opening of the mouth ceremony on your mummy by Anubis, you start your afterlife journey protected by Eye of Horus(Wadjet) to pass through the underworld realm of Osiris, challenging an invisible adversary inside an Egyptian hidden tomb in The Valley of the Queens located near the better known Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile river across from Thebes (Luxor).Senet is a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt, it is the earliest known record of backgammon, checkers and chess-like games.The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3500 BC. The full name of the game in Egyptian was meaning "The game of passing".Games have been around for thousands of years, but none are older than the ancient game of Senet, invented by the Egyptians roughly 3500 or 5000 years ago. It is believed that this two-player board game originated as a popular form of recreation with both royalty and peasantry. But by the mid-13th century BC, Senet had evolved into a more religious ritual. Some depictions from this time period forward show the game being played not by two people, but rather as a deceased player competing against an invisible adversary, interpreted by some to symbolize the deceased players own soul.The bo
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