{"id":6999,"date":"2015-11-30T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6999"},"modified":"2015-11-30T13:44:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:44:24","slug":"6999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/30\/6999\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Decorated with two eyes, which are surrounded by cloud-and-thunder patterns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/ancient-board-game-tomb-china-366326\" target=\"_blank\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Mysterious Ancient Board Game Discovered in 2,300-Year-Old Tomb in China<\/h1>\n<p><time>by Lorena Mu\u00f1oz-Alonso<\/time><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/wp-content\/news-upload\/2015\/11\/Ancient-Chinese-Board-Game.jpg\" alt=\"The 14-face die found in the 2,300-year-old Chinese tomb.&lt;br&gt;Photo: Chinese Cultural Relics via Live Science.\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>A group of archaeologists in China have unearthed pieces from a mysterious ancient board game that was last played around 1,500 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A 14-face die made of animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces with numbers painted on them, and a broken tile from a board game were found in a 2,300-year-old tomb in Qingzhou City, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52808-ancient-board-game-found-in-china-tomb.html\" target=\"_blank\">Live Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other recent archaeological discoveries include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/people\/13th-century-cave-americas-first-casino-304091\" target=\"_blank\">a cave full of game pieces<\/a>\u00a0that has been dubbed North America&#8217;s first casino, and an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/ancient-ipad-uncovered-in-byzantine-shipwreck-23958\" target=\"_blank\">ancient tablet that has been compared to an iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When reconstructed, the tile turned out to be &#8220;decorated with two eyes, which are surrounded by cloud-and-thunder patterns,&#8221; a report published in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastviewpress.com\/Journals\/CulturalRelics.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Cultural Relics<\/a>\u00a0claimed. The die comprises the numbers 1 through 6, each appearing twice on 12 of the faces in a form of ancient Chinese writing known as &#8220;seal script.&#8221; Two of the faces were left blank.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/ancient-board-game-tomb-china-366326\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Mysterious Ancient Board Game Discovered in 2,300-Year-Old Tomb in China by Lorena Mu\u00f1oz-Alonso A group of archaeologists in China have unearthed pieces from a mysterious ancient board game that was last played around 1,500 years ago. A 14-face die made of animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces with numbers painted on them, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}