Editing Tables game (section)

==== Persia ====
The history of [[tables games]] and their [[race game]] forerunners can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to Persia,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1029.html|title=World's Oldest Backgammon Discovered In Burnt City|website=www.payvand.com}}</ref><ref name="wilkinson"/><ref name="murray">{{cite book |last=Murray |first=H.J.R. |author-link=H. J. R. Murray |chapter=6: Race-Games |title=A History of Board-Games Other than Chess |publisher=Hacker Art Books |year=1952 |isbn=978-0-87817-211-5}}</ref><ref name="Bray2011">{{cite book |last=Bray |first=Chris |title=Backgammon For Dummies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0SoloeOOtSkC&pg=PP31 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |date=14 February 2011 |pages=31– |isbn=978-1-119-99674-3}}</ref><ref name="Bray2012">{{cite book |last=Bray |first=Chris |title=Backgammon to Win |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6PfAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 |publisher=Lulu Com |year=2012 |pages=6– |isbn=978-1-291-01965-0}}</ref> where excavations in 2006 at the [[Shahr-i Sokhta|Burnt City]] unearthed objects that appear to be part of a game set dating to around 3000 BC. These artefacts include an ebony board, two dice and 60 pieces, with the playing fields represented by the coils of a serpent. The rules of this game, like others found in Egypt, have yet to be discovered. It is, however, made from ebony, a material more likely to be found in the [[Indian subcontinent]], which indicates such board games may be more widespread than once thought.<ref name="Iranica board game">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Schädler |first1=Ulrich |last2=Dunn-Vaturi |first2=Anne-Elizabeth |title=Board Games in pre-Islamic Persia |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/board-games-in-pre-islamic-persia |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |access-date=2018-04-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Burnt City: World's oldest "Backgammon" Game? – Dr. Kaveh Farrokh |url=https://www.kavehfarrokh.com/news/burnt-city-worlds-oldest-backgammon-game/}}</ref>