Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain ...

Vindolanda says the 3D printed board game helps make the Roman fort more accessible.

During a brief respite from COVID-19 lockdowns in the summer of 2020, archaeologist Walter Crist found himself wandering the halls of Het Romeins Museum in Heerlen, Netherlands. He was killing time, ...

An excavation in modern-day Turkey near what was once a Roman fortress revealed a pair of carved bone disk-shaped pieces likely used for a strategic board game. Each of the pieces is shaped the same, ...

Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The team concludes that this type of game was played several centuries earlier ...

Top Left: The potential stone game board. Bottom Left: how the pieces may have moved along the board. Right: game pieces found in Coriovallum. © Antiquity ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Board games didn’t always come in cardboard boxes. Some ancient versions were carved out of stone and employed polished rocks as gaming pieces ...

A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers. Now, with the help of artificial intelligence, scientists believe they have cracked the ...