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 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 ...

It gamed the system. Here’s yet more proof that AI is playing 3D chess while we’re playing checkers. A gameplaying AI system has cracked a cryptic, Roman-era board game that has baffled scientists for ...

A piece of etched rock discovered at the site of an ancient Roman settlement in the Netherlands is now thought to be an ...

A mysterious carved stone that sat in a Dutch museum for decades has now been identified as a Roman-era game board, with artificial intelligence simulations reconstructing the rules of a game likely ...

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 ...

A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.

A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers.

I think about the Roman Empire every day. I know it's a meme, but it's true for me. That meme is my hole, it was made for me etc. I've trekked along Hadrian's Wall, toured the Colosseum in Rome, and ...