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Apple QuickTime movie  |  1996-10-23  |  15.9 MB  |  720x480  |  29.97fps  |  2 minutes, 56 seconds  |  [MMov/2can]
Transcription: Nine Men's Morris is a game that is almost 3,000 years old and has been played all around the world. The first people believed to play Nine Men's Morris were the ancient Egyptians. A playing board from 1400 B.C. was found carved into the roof of a temple at Kernah. Another board was found carved into stone near the Great Pyramids of Giza. Perhaps the workers who built the Great Pyramids played the game. A board was also found in the ruins of the ancient city of Troy. Troy was made famous by Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey. You might have heard of some of the characters from these ...