Researchers used artificial intelligence to reconstruct the rules of a 2,000-year-old Roman board game discovered in the Netherlands.

The researchers had two AIs play a large number of ancient European board games, including Scandinavia’s Haretavl and Italy’s ...

The aim of the "deceptively simple but thrilling strategy game" was to hunt and trap the opponent's pieces in as few moves as possible, scientists said.

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 ...

A MYSTERY over a carved Roman stone that has puzzled experts for decades may have finally been solved – by AI. The rounded hunk of limestone has a strange pattern carved into the top that dates ...

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If you're stuck for something to play with family members or friends, why not the ancient board game found in Shahr-i Sokhta in southeastern Iran? Almost 50 years after it was dug up in 1977, experts ...