Games Britania. Episode 1. "Dicing with Destiny"

This week we looked at  Games Britania "Dicing with Destiny" presented by historian Benjamin Woolley to help us understand how ancient games worked from the iron age to the information age. 

In this episode Benjamin explores some of the earliest games in their first known forms and explains how they would of been played in their time.

The first game was the Stanway which was excavated from British graves in 1996 but after discovery it was found that the game was from around 43AD. 

He also looked at how religion was used in games, and it was found and believed that Snakes and ladders was actually represented as a Hindu journey to enlightenment and nothing like the fun family game it is today! 

Woolley found this as a perfect analogy for how the sacred energy which once imbued games has been drained away by commercilization. R.I.P.