Thursday, November 15, 2012

Oldest D20 Die Found in Egypt!

How cool is it to know that your ancient ancestors where playing Dungeons and Dragons! Well it's not so much a surprise that they played board games, actually the Egyptians where known for many ancient board games. I just wonder how Wizards of the Coast (creators of Dungeons & Dragons) came up with their D20 system.

Either way, being Egyptian myself this is one proud discovery. The Die in the picture is thought to date back somewhere between 30BC and 304BC. The original article states that the symbols look to be of Greek origin but I know it's really more likely to be Coptic since the die was found in Egypt and not Greece.

Source: CNet

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