You can learn more about the History of Morris from The Online Guide to Traditional Games. Template:Infobox Game Nine Mens Morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire. 1 The game is also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills, merelles, marelles, morelles, and ninepenny marl 2 in English. The game is actually mentioned in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Act 2, Scene 2 - "The Nine Mens Morris is filled up with mud" which must have been a common problem for the primitive boards when it rained! Nine men's morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire.
It was also popular in many taverns with boards marked with chalk on a table. The old English game used to be played with black and white pebbles on a board that was dug into village greens using a trowel. In a Viking ship burial from rby in Uppland (Sweden) a game of Nine Mens Morris was found carved in a piece of timber, which was probably one of the strakes. The rules come from Medieval Celebrations by Daniel. Carved into the rock is the board for the game Nine Mens. In Europe the game's popularity peaked during the Fourteenth Century. Object: To eliminate the morrells of your opponent until he or she has only two left. This photograph was taken in August 1996 at a hill temple near Khejarala, Rajesthan, India. Boards have also been found across Europe in such places as the first city of Troy, within a Bronze age burial site in Ireland and at the Acropolis in Athens.
Other boards have been discovered in Ceylon, carved during the reign of Mahadithika Maha-Naga (9-21AD). The game is most likely an evolution of the simpler Three Mens Morris and primitive board patterns have been found dating back to as early as 1440BC, cut into the temple at Kurna, Egypt. Nine Mens Morris is another contender for the prize of 'Oldest game in the world' and is known by a number of different names in England - Nine Mens Morris or Morelles or Merrills or Merels or Mill or just plain Morris.
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