In 1901, on an excavation trip to Crete, British archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed items he believed belonged to a royal game dating back millennia: a board fashioned out of ivory, gold, silver, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only fragments of the board have been recovered, researchers said, adding that it may have intentionally been destroyed. Photo from the journal Lucentum During an excavation in northwestern Spain, ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Egyptian Senet Egyptian Senet is a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt that combines luck, strategy and magic. Don’t miss the opportunity to play ...

Andrew is a science-fiction/adventure-horror writer from the UK and a graduate of Falmouth University currently working for both GameRant and DualShockers. At ...

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 ...

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 ...