An ancient board game known as Hounds and Jackals has long been believed to have originated in Egypt. However, according to a paper published in the European Journal of Archaeology, a version of the ...

During construction work in southern Mexico, archaeologists excavated a 1,000-year-old building and found several designs ...

Games have a long history of being used to teach military lessons, starting with ancient board games such as checkers and chess. As games have become more complex and narratively driven over the ...

Credit: W. Crist et al. A recent archaeological study has revealed that an ancient board of a game, known as the fifty-eight-hole game, and found in 2018 on the Absheron peninsula, located in ...

The traditional Kazakh board game, also known as the “chess of the steppes” or the “algebra of the shepherds,” fosters math ...

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Mukherjee, whose MPhil and PhD were both centered around video games, runs a board game museum named after his late father-in-law Goutam Sen, an avid chess enthusiast, at his Ballygunge Circular Road ...

An archaeologist dusts off an ancient patolli game board. Photo from Felix Camacho Zamora and INAH Excavations at the site in Xpujil took place between June and August 2023, officials said.