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3D Printing Gives New Life to an Ancient Game Board Discovered at a Roman Fort Near Hadrian's Wall in England
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- Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent
- The reproduction is based on a stone board discovered at Vindolanda, an archaeological site in England, near Hadrian’s Wall.
- Archaeologists found the game in 2019 buried between a bathhouse drain and workshop wall, beside a road from the third century C.E.
Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent
Add as preferred source The 3D printed board based on scans of the original game board discovered in Vindolanda Newcastle University Researchers in England, equipped with a 3D printer, created a playable replica of Roman Britain’s most popular board game, Ludus Latrunculorum.
The reproduction is based on a stone board discovered at Vindolanda, an archaeological site in England, near Hadrian’s Wall. A Roman frontier fort and town occupied between roughly 85 C.E. and 200 C.E., several thousand people lived in the settlement at any one time. Despite being only a quarter excavated, Vindolanda has yielded plenty of artifacts—board games included.
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