(The photo currently on the Wikipedia page is of the board from the Met that I see every time I go.)
(1) Tue Oct 20 2009 14:40:
Oh, also: every time I go to the Met I mean to look up the game being played by the little statue dudes. This time I did it: the game is Liubo, and it doesn't seem like a very interesting game, despite some very Pavel Chekov-esque claims that Liubo was exported to India and underwent radical changes to become the ancestor to chess.
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Posted by Tim May at Tue Nov 03 2009 20:55
Oh, I meant to say, Andrew West at Babelstone began a series of posts on liubo & the archaological evidence for it back in May.