Craps History
The Dice are without a shadow of doubt the oldest gambling tool in the known history of mankind. The Dice have been around since 600 B.C. in Egypt. Dice became the only gambling tool amongst the ancient world, with the soldiers of virtually all armies playing with dice and even the Roman Emperor Augustine being a devoted Dice Player. It then was only a matter of time before someone took the idea of gambling with dice to the next level.
But the History of Craps is actually debatable. One thing that is certain is that the game originated from a game called "Hazard" and this is where it gets complicated; One theory is that it was "Sir William of Tyre" and his knights who invented "Hazard" while the besieging of a castle called "Hazarth" this would mean that Hazard is a variation of Hazarth. But another theory is that, as the Encyclopaedia Britannica says, the name came from the Arabic words 'al zar' or 'azzah' which actually means "the dice". This would obviously imply the game is of Arabic origin.
Of course the game did not have the same rules as today but it did have the basic function of the craps table. Hazard was then renamed in france to Craps as we know it today, and then it is said that either the French or the British brought the game to America where the the rules that we know and love were also invented.
After the introduction of the internet and online casinos, Online Craps burst onto the scene, becoming one of the most played casino games online in the online gambling industry.
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