Cool, right? Did you know that chess, possibly the first board game we ever learned, is over 1500 years old? This sometimes stressful strategy game was born in the courts of the Gupta Empire in ...

If the tiny sandstone figure Oleson excavated is indeed a rook, it may be the single oldest chess piece ever discovered, dating to roughly 1,300 years ago. "There are references to chess-playing ...

The rook in question certainly wasn't the first chess piece ever created, but it may be the oldest found to date. John Peter Oleson Almost 30 years after its discovery, a small sandstone figurine ...