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Backgammon - Oldest Game in the World. Backgammon is supposedly the oldest game in the world. In 1926, Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, a British archaeologist discovered a board game similar to backgammon in the digs of the Royal Tombs of Ur of the Chaldees, an ancient city of southern Mesopotamia built by the Sumerians.