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.

Archeologists have found remnants of an ancient Roman board game that may resemble ... and is a two-player strategy game that was born from the Greek game Petteia and popular throughout Roman ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: W. Crist et al. A recent archaeological study has revealed that an ancient board of a game, known as the fifty-eight-hole game, and found in 2018 on the Absheron peninsula, located in ...

This connection demonstrates a flourishing gaming tradition in the Near East, testifying to the popularity of board games in the daily life of ancient civilizations. Researchers Sam Jelveh ...

Archaeologists from the University of Bristol have suggested that mysterious stone spheres found at various ancient ... board games. There has been quite a lot of speculation around these spheres ...