While not poisonous substances, heat and humidity from summer weather can be deadly to pets. Most pets donât perspire like humans, but use their lungs to get rid of excess heat. As the ambient temperature and humidity rise, their ability to cool in this manner fails and they suffer from heat stroke.
Senet is the oldest board game known to exist. Sets have been found in burial chambers from as far back as 3,500 B.C.âincluding four in Tutankhamenâs tomb. Game boards were three squares wide and ten squares long, and sets typically had five to seven pieces for each player.
While the rules of Mesopotamian Checkers are unknown, historians do know the rules of an ancient Egyptian Checkers game called Alquerque. This game may have originated about 1400 BCE, and was popular until the Middle Ages. In 1100 CE, a new version of Checkers, Fierges, was invented by a Frenchman.