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• prehistoric age
From the Neolithic to the middle of the fourth century B.C.
Many artefacts were found by accident, simple grids on a piece of stone but some found in prestigious graves indicate the relationship between games and divination at that time.
• dynastic age
Between 3500 and 1800 B.C., the time of the all mighty rulers of the Near Eastern world.
Most of them are made of precious materials and were sometimes part of the funeral ceremonials.
• bronze age
The great spread of board games. One can observe some changes in their change and a democratisation in their localisation and fabrics.
• iron age
The popular stage. Games seemed to have been an essential object of the every day life at that time, especially in Egypt were the game of Senet became an amulet that helped the death in its after-life journey.