Editing Tables game (section)

==== Mesopotamia ====
Prior to the Persian discovery, the oldest board game sets had been found in [[Ur]] and are thought to be around 100 to 200 years later. They were used for the [[Royal Game of Ur]], played in ancient [[Mesopotamia]]. These finds are significant because of two Babylonian tablets with cuneiform descriptions of the game played on these game sets, the later one dated {{Circa|177 BC}} and the other one dating to several centuries earlier.<ref name=Finkel>Finkel (2007), p. 22.</ref> These represent the oldest rule sets of any [[race game]] and clearly show this Sumerian game to be ancestral to the tables game family.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ancient Board Games in Perspective: Papers from the 1990 British Museum Colloquium, with Additional Contributions|last=Becker|first=Andrea|date=2007|publisher=British Museum Press|isbn=9780714111537|editor-last=Finkel|editor-first=Irving|editor-link=Irving Finkel|location=London, England|pages=16|chapter=The Royal Game of Ur|oclc=150371733}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=It's all a game : the history of board games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan|last=Donovan|first=Tristan|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books|year=2017|isbn=9781250082725|edition=First|location=New York|pages=13–16|oclc=960239246}}</ref>