Study ancient games, sports, and recreation in past civilizations through archaeological findings.
A limestone object recovered from the Roman settlement of Coriovallum, now Heerlen in the Netherlands, has provided rare evidence for ...
Excavations at the ancient Maya city of Naachtun, in northern Guatemala, have yielded a one-of-a-kind artifact: a patolli gameboard that, ...
A rare 13th-century hair-styling implement has been unearthed at Eilean Donan Castle in the Scottish Highlands and is housed in ...
Archaeologists in Mexico are adopting new strategies to preserve a unique set of artifacts linked to the oldest known ballgame ...
Archaeological excavations in Hadrianopolis, in Turkey's Karabük region, uncovered two game stones made of bone, dating to the 5th century ...
In 1977, archaeologists excavating the Bronze Age cemetery of Shahr-i Sokhta in southeastern Iran unearthed an extraordinary relic: a 4,500-year-old ...
Archaeologists working on the Maya Train project in southern Mexico have uncovered nine ancient patolli game boards during an excavation ...
A new archaeological study has raised intriguing questions about the origins of one of the world's oldest known board games, ...
Veronica Waweru, an archaeologist from Yale University, has unearthed an "arcade" of rock-cut Mancala game boards in Kenya's highlands. Yale ...
Archaeologists exploring the historical castle at Ćmielów in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship of Poland have unearthed a stone-carved board game believed ...
