Walter Crist, who researches ancient games at Leiden University in the Netherlands, first saw the carved limestone in 2020, at the Het Romeins Museum. Located in the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, ...
A piece of etched rock discovered at the site of an ancient Roman settlement in the Netherlands is now thought to be an ...
A custom AI program analyzed around 100 known Roman board games to help theorize the rules to the newly analyzed example. A complete catalog of Roman games may never be known, but an international ...
A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers.
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 ...