The board survived better than the instructionsSourced
Modern senet uses reconstructed rules
Ancient Egyptian senet used a thirty-square board, but its exact original rules are unknown. Modern play follows historians’ reconstructions from incomplete evidence. A surviving board does not preserve every action once performed on it.
The equipment and the instructions can have different survival histories.
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