A Ludus Latrunculorum board found in Roman Britain
(English Heritage / The Trustees of the Corbridge Excavation Fund)
This roughly 4,500-year-old board features shell plaque squares encircled by strips of lapis lazuli and decorated with intricate floral and geometric designs.
(© Trustees of the British Museum)
This ancient Egyptian Senet board is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(Public domain)
This Senet board dates to between roughly 1390 and 1353 B.C.
(Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund / Brooklyn Museum)
Source is Smithsonian Magazine.
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