Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered ...

The history of the ancient Maya board game patolli gained a new twist when archaeologists discovered a game board embedded in ...

Patolli was detected in the ancient city of Naachtun in northern Guatemala, found to be embedded within the floor of a ...

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 ...

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.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A pattern of small holes cut into the floor of an ancient rock shelter in Azerbaijan shows that ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

A game board that dates back to before the reign of the pharaoh Hatshepsut may represent the transformation of the game senet from fun pastime to religious symbol. Senet is ancient, dating back some 5 ...

A computer defeated China’s top player of the ancient board game go on Tuesday, earning praise that it might have finally surpassed human abilities in one of the last games machines have yet to ...

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 ...