Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A custom AI program analyzed around 100 known Roman board games to help theorize the rules to the newly analyzed example. A ...

A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its distinct grooves and marks, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers. Now, with the help ...

A limestone board roughly 20 centimeters across was found in Heerlen, a Dutch city built atop the Roman-era town of Coriovallum. Antiquity/Cambridge University Press Antiquity/Cambridge University ...

In a museum depot in the Dutch town of Heerlen, a flattened limestone slab carved with intersecting lines has sat for decades, cataloged but not fully understood. Archaeologists agreed it looked like ...

How do you go about learning the rules for a board game that's centuries-old? NPR's Henry Larson has that story. HENRY LARSON, BYLINE: Walter Crist is a researcher in the Netherlands, and a few years ...

A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers. Now with the help of artificial intelligence, scientists believe they have cracked the ...

A 2,000-year-old inscribed limestone board sat for years as an archaeological puzzle with no instruction manual. Found in the Dutch city of Heerlen - built atop the ruins of the Roman town of ...

A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers. Now, with the help of artificial intelligence, scientists believe they have cracked the ...