Would ancient Egyptians recognize these rules? Who knows. A reconstruction of the ancient Greek board game pente grammai. First played: Earlier than 600 B.C.E. Who played it: Ancient Greeks.

Around 4500 years old, it consists of a board with 20 circular spaces created from the coils of a carved snake, four dice and 27 geometric pieces. The Shahr-i Sokhta game is one of many ancient ...

Board games have long been a favored pastime, even thousands of years ago. The ancient game called "Hounds and Jackals," also called "58 Holes," has long been thought to have originated in Egypt.

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 ... used as counters for a board game with the spheres most ...

with roots in the ancient Greek game of Petteia. The two bone pieces found at Hadrianopolis might also have belonged to Duodecim Scripta, a game comparable to backgammon played on a board with ...