Researchers used AI-driven virtual players to test more than 100 rule sets, matching gameplay to wear patterns on a Roman limestone board.

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America’s most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the ...

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A mysterious carved rock has been identified as a Roman board game using AI. The discovery reveals how people played, relaxed ...

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America's most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including ...

The great mystery of the Minoan Phaistos Disc has been "solved by 99 percent" says linguist and archaeologist Gareth Owens.

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery beneath Rome, unearthing a hidden ancient palace that likely served as home to Popes between the ninth and thirteenth centuries AD. The discovery ...

Archaeologists working on Sheffield Castle in the United Kingdom found burnt material that helps date the site. Screengrab from Wessex Archaeology's Facebook post Years into excavations at a medieval ...

The mystery of how the Ancient Egyptian pyramids has been reignited by the death of a Swiss author, who famously argued that early human civilisations received help from extra-terrestrial visitors.