Game pieces from the Roman Empire that were used to create military strategies were found

In Ancient Rome, it was common to use games as a way to plan armed attacks. Now, pieces have been discovered in Türkiye that provide some clues.

In Hadrianopolis, Turkey, a team of researchers found two archaeological pieces that would be used by the Romans as a game that was not only recreational, but also didactic: for learn and improve war tactics.

The two pieces found are bone discs that were used as game pieces in two different games: the ““, A game of chess and no A game of twelve writersdating from the 5th century AD, counts the .

The “Game of Bandits” was played two thousand years ago, two by two, and was similar to current checkers or chess. It was based on an earlier Greek game called box.

The “Bandit Game” was discovered in Norway in 2020, but now new pieces have been discovered that prove it was played in Hadrianopolis, which gives the green light to the idea of ​​this place having housed a military detachment for 2 or 3 centuries.

According to the LBV, these pieces reflect the importance of military strategy in everyday life at the time.

The one at the university of Karabük published on January 8th highlights that these records were decorated with symbols of four and eight arms engraved with scraping techniques.

The main author, Ersin Çelikbaşsays that “these old games have similarities with modern pastimes such as checkers, Naval Battle or even the video game ‘Buscavidas’”.

He further guarantees that “they were not mere hobbies, but tools designed to teach military tactics, suggesting that they were practiced mainly by soldiers.”