The moon is new on Thursday. Here's a real historical paper by Touraj Daryaee from UC Irvine and the truth about Kurt "Smitty" Collins.
I'm sitting here in this cafe, my internet at home is disconnected, a final paper for an online class is due at midnight, I've got a serious case of the coffee jitters, and if I don't leave soon, URABANANA, a very mysterious local restaurant, might close! Look guys, I need to cut to the chase.
I've previously spread lies about fake backgammon mythology and history, and yesterday I found an authentic and really really interesting academic paper about backgammon (and chess) in ancient Persia. My hate for internet lies/rumors and my joy at finding this study made me very ashamed of everything I've written about Kurt Smitty Collins. Anyway, I'll have to refine my thoughts on that later.
Touraj Daryaee, a professor at UC Irvine, published "Mind, Body, and the Cosmos: Chess and Backgammon in Ancient Persia" in the Fall issue of the Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies in 2002. I've found it posted in a few different formats online. Daryaee has posted a PDF scan of the journal article with pictures on his personal website. Sasanika, a scholarly organization devoted to the study of the Sasanian Persian Empire (of which Daryaee is a member,) has a PDF of the paper on their site which is much more readable, but it does not include the pictures from the original journal article. The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies website has the complete paper in html format, along with some pictures that are not in the original article.
I'm sitting here in this cafe, my internet at home is disconnected, a final paper for an online class is due at midnight, I've got a serious case of the coffee jitters, and if I don't leave soon, URABANANA, a very mysterious local restaurant, might close! Look guys, I need to cut to the chase.
I've previously spread lies about fake backgammon mythology and history, and yesterday I found an authentic and really really interesting academic paper about backgammon (and chess) in ancient Persia. My hate for internet lies/rumors and my joy at finding this study made me very ashamed of everything I've written about Kurt Smitty Collins. Anyway, I'll have to refine my thoughts on that later.
Touraj Daryaee, a professor at UC Irvine, published "Mind, Body, and the Cosmos: Chess and Backgammon in Ancient Persia" in the Fall issue of the Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies in 2002. I've found it posted in a few different formats online. Daryaee has posted a PDF scan of the journal article with pictures on his personal website. Sasanika, a scholarly organization devoted to the study of the Sasanian Persian Empire (of which Daryaee is a member,) has a PDF of the paper on their site which is much more readable, but it does not include the pictures from the original journal article. The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies website has the complete paper in html format, along with some pictures that are not in the original article.
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