References in Popular Culture
Modern game companies have sold game sets featuring reproductions of the original game board, along with rules derived from the tablet. Among them are Ur: Royal Game of Sumer, from Selchow & Righter in association with the British Museum.
The television series Lost references the discovery of the game when John Locke explains the origins of Backgammon to Walt in the episode "Pilot, Part 2".
In the film Screamers some of the characters play the game for cigarettes.
In the "Queen Esther & Purim" episode of The Naked Archaeologist, it is proposed as the game which Haman uses to choose the date to commit genocide against the Jews in capivity.
In the MMORPG Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands, Ur is played by the inhabitants of Istarion, under the name Nai-an'tzai-an'har.
In the Action-adventure game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, one of the hidden treasures is the board game.
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