Hounds and Jackals
Also called Dogs and Jackals, this is an ancient Egyptian board game.

Roman Board Games
Images and descriptions of Roman board games, including versions of dice, backgammon, chess, and checkers.

Salar's Backgammon
History of the game from Ancient Mesopotamia and its reincarnations throughout the world. Site includes graphs of probabilities and offline game sites.

Timeline
From the History Channel. A scanty timeline of toys from 4000 B.C. - A.D.1759. Ancient toys are an ancestor of chess and checkers, a backgammon-like board game, marbles, kites, yo-yos, skates.

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