A custom AI program analyzed around 100 known Roman board games to help theorize the rules to the newly analyzed example. A complete catalog of Roman games may never be known, but an international ...

A piece of etched rock discovered at the site of an ancient Roman settlement in the Netherlands is now thought to be an ...

It gamed the system. Here’s yet more proof that AI is playing 3D chess while we’re playing checkers. A gameplaying AI system has cracked a cryptic, Roman-era board game that has baffled scientists for ...

More than a century ago, a scratched-up slab of limestone was excavated in the modern-day Netherlands and later deemed an ancient Roman game board. Since then, the mysterious game has eluded ...

In a museum depot in the Dutch town of Heerlen, a flattened limestone slab carved with intersecting lines has sat for decades, cataloged but not fully understood. Archaeologists agreed it looked like ...

A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers.

A limestone board roughly 20 centimeters across was found in Heerlen, a Dutch city built atop the Roman-era town of Coriovallum. Antiquity/Cambridge University Press Antiquity/Cambridge University ...

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 ...