Board games might involve a race to a finish line, as in Sorry! or that ubiquitous first board game for kids, Candyland. Or they might entail a strategic battle for dominance, as in chess or checkers.

For the final installment of the first round of our Ancient Games series, we're playing the Ancient Egyptian board game Mehen! This is the oldest one of the three, arising in the Pre-dynastic era and ...

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. An ...

In the 1970s, in a grave in a Bronze Age cemetery in Shahr-i Sokhta, Iran, an incredible object was unearthed next to a human skull: the oldest complete board game ever discovered. Around 4500 years ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

An ancient "arcade" of game boards carved into rock has been discovered by an archaeologist and paleoanthropologist from Yale University in Kenya. The researcher, Veronica Waweru, noticed rows of ...