A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

Researchers have proposed a possible set of rules for an ancient board game that dates back more than 4,000 years ago, ranking as one of the oldest in the world. A paper accepted for publication in ...

The history of the ancient Maya board game patolli gained a new twist when archaeologists discovered a game board embedded in residential architecture. The board dates to the Classic period, and was ...

An ancient board game known as Hounds and Jackals has long been believed to have originated in Egypt. However, according to a paper published in the European Journal of Archaeology, a version of the ...