Why did ancient Egypt spend 3000 years playing a game nobody else liked?

Edit Eurogamer 05 Jul 2016
ba - soul is the closest word we have - was kicked loose from your body and freed to roam the lands. This freedom came with limitations, however ... As above, so below ... Nesperennub was a priest and advisor to a pharaoh - possibly Osorkon 2 - and when he died in Thebes somewhere around 800 BC, the people tasked with embalming him stuck a small clay pot to the back of his head ... ....

How Cleopatra’s Needle — a 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk — got to Central Park

Edit New York Post 15 Jun 2014
It’s 70 feet tall, 220 tons and the city’s oldest artifact — but many New Yorkers don’t know it exists. Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500-year-old obelisk from Ancient Egypt, survived a voyage to Central Park more than a century ago and has been a park treasure ever since ... Pharaoh Ramesses II, who reigned from 1279 to 1212 BC, inscribed his praises and left little room for Osorkon I, who crammed his moniker on a lower edge ... ... On Jan ... ... ....
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