Board games were invented in 5000 b.c.Most people don’t realize board games are actually pre-historic, meaning we had board games before we had written language. So, what was the very first game?Dice A piece that’s essential in most board games today was the basis of humanity’s oldest games.

A series of 49 small carved painted stones were found at the 5,000-year-old Başur Höyük burial mound in southeast Turkey. These are the earliest gaming pieces ever found. Similar pieces have been found in Syria and Iraq and seem to point to board games originating in the Fertile Crescent.They were invented in Eourope.