Women weren’t depicted playing board games in ancient Greece, Carè notes, because of the association of games with male pursuits. In ancient Rome, however, the connotations were different.

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.

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.

Strange stone spheres found during archaeological digs across ancient Greece may have been tokens used in a Bronze Age board game, a study has concluded. The putative playing pieces — which are ...

There has been quite a lot of speculation around these spheres found at sites on Santorini, Crete, Cyprus, and other Greek Islands with theories around their use including being for some sort of ...

Archaeologists digging in the ancient Roman city of Hadrianopolis, located near Eskipazar in modern-day Turkey, have unearthed two bone tokens dating to the fifth century C.E. that they suspect ...

Stone spheres could be from Ancient Greek board game . Groups of spheres from ... Archaeologists from the University of Bristol have suggested that mysterious stone spheres found at various ancient ...