The history of backgammon dates back to which historical period?

According to the documents that exist about backgammon and how it appeared in the world, this type of game is an authentic and old Iranian game, whose original birthplace was Iran, and for the first time, these Iranians were who have played this game. The civilization of Elam centered on Susa was among the first civilizations to invent this game and played it about 6000 years ago. However, after many years, the shape and appearance of the backgammon board changed and became the present day. During the Sasanian era, the wise minister of this large territory in Iran, named Bozorgmehr, invented the backgammon game in its modern form, whose rules and how to play the game are similar to today's backgammon. The invention of this new type of game was in response to the invention of chess by Indians. Where at that time chess was invented by the kings and ministers of India, then Bozorgmehr invented this type of game to answer the Indians.

In the backgammon game, there are 30 black and white pieces, 15 of which are black and the other 15 are white. The number of pieces in this type of game are determined based on the number of days in a month. In other words, because each month usually has 30 days, so the number of pieces in this game is also 30. In addition, they have used black and white beads to show day and night in this game. Also, this game has 24 houses that must be left behind in each round of the game for the pieces to leave the game board. This number 24 represents the duration of a day and night, which is 24 hours. In addition, on each side of the board of this game, there are 12 houses that represent the months of a year. are those that appear in the one-year rotation of the earth around the sun. The pieces of this game are the humans who move around on the game board and the entire game board is known as the globe, and these elements and components that were mentioned above, on the globe that the board The game is circulating. Due to the fact that the history of backgammon goes back centuries, these elements of the game have had different shapes and appearances during different centuries, and finally they have become today's form, and today many companies and manufacturers In different regions of the country, they are active in the field of production of this type of game, and Artanamic Production Company is considered one of the best and most famous Iranian companies in this field.