List of Children’s Games and Toys in Antiquity: Media

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Chinese children playing with marionettes
Detail from The Hundred Children, a hand scroll of the 17th century; in...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum
Dolls
Egyptian paddle doll, c. 2030–1802 bce; in the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1931, (31.3.35a,b), www.metmuseum.org
Bird whistle
Glazed ceramic whistle from the Tang dynasty (618–907 ce)...
© Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Ancient Roman dice
Various dice made of carved ivory during Egypt's Roman period (30 bce–4th...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897 (97.4.123), www.metmusem.org
Knucklebones
Greek terra-cotta sculpture of two young women playing astragaloi, c. 330–300...
© Werner Forman—Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Senet
Queen Nefertari Playing Senet, tempura on paper by Nina de Garis Davies,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rogers Fund, 1930(accession no. 30.4.145); www.metmuseum.org
From communications tool to toy
Indian fighter kite. Kites were used in China for thousands of years as military...
© Eden Maxwell
A rolling stone
Chunkey stone, Mississippian culture, c. 1200–1400, reportedly from the Kaskaskia...
The Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Emily Rauh Pulitzer (2005.155), www.artic.edu
Mandan men playing chunkey
Tchung-kee, a Mandan Game Played with a Ring and Pole, oil on canvas by...
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr. (object no. 1985.66.431)