Board games might involve a race to a finish line, as in Sorry! or that ubiquitous first board game for kids, Candyland. Or they might entail a strategic battle for dominance, as in chess or checkers.

It’s the latest find in a project examining Northern Oman’s Qumayrah Valley and the development of settlements during the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Prof. Piotr Bieliński from the Polish Centre of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ancient Board Game Collection Have you ever heard of Hnefatafl, a game played during the Viking Age? Or Latrunculi, popular over 2000 years ago in ancient ...

During an excavation in northwestern Spain, archaeologists unearthed a “very unusual” collection of ceramic objects. After careful analysis, they determined the pieces once composed an Iron Age board ...

A board game dubbed “Hounds and Jackals” or “58 Holes” is believed to be the oldest in the world, with ancient versions found ...

Kōnane was once a national pastime, played by peasants and rulers alike. Now John Kaʻohelauliʻi has made it his mission to ...

While video games have only been around in a major way since the 1970s, board games can trace their history back millennia. Analog games are where the likes of Nintendo started before Mario and his ...

The Digital Ludeme Project's AI envisions thousands of possibilities to fill in the blanks on ancient games lost to time. Games like the Knossos Game and 58 Holes are first broken down into ...

The piece was found along with "six bone buttons, a bone die and whetstone, all deposited in a steatite bowl," according to a study published Aug. 11 by museum researcher Peter Pentz in the ...

Associate Professor in Project Management for Development, University of Bradford Recently, a stone scoreboard was found by archaeologists in Chichén Itzá, Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. The Mayan people ...

There’s nothing like a good game night. A time to gather around and hash it out over a game of Clue or Settlers of Catan. But the joy board games bring, to pass the time during a long winter or ...