To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

The ancient Egyptian game of senet is one of the world's oldest board games — pieces of boards thought to have been used for senet have been found in tombs of Egypt's First Dynasty of kings ...

The Best Board Games of the Ancient World Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga. Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History.

Certain games persisted and morphed over the millennia into ones we know today. The origins of chess, for instance, likely trace back to the Indian game of chaturanga, described in Sanskrit texts from ...

Ancient stone board game 'likely played in a similar way to backgammon' is discovered at a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement in Oman. Archaeologists have been digging near Ayn Bani Sa'dah in ...

That made it unique among ancient board games, which tended to be two-player affairs, Crist says. The rules: Each player had six marblelike pieces and two lion-shaped pieces.

Humans have entertained themselves with board games for thousands of years. Some, like chess and go, continue to be played ...

Board games go back a long way. Centuries ago, before the chess we know today, there was Chaturanga in India, Shogi in Japan, and Xiangqi in China.

Many ancient board games have been discovered, but there are no rulebooks so we don't know how to play them. Now AI is bringing these games back to life by working out likely rules.

Board games have been a pastime for thousands of years. An ancient version of the modern game "Chutes and Ladders" had been thought to have Egyptian origins, but a new study suggests otherwise.

An ancient Egyptian ‘board game of death’ was used to communicate with the dead about 3,500 years ago. The game, called senet, was played at all levels of Egyptian society from when it first ...

The region is no stranger to ancient board games. The Ancient Egyptian Senet, which means "passing", dates back some 5,000-years, just like the Basur pieces, and images of the game being played ...