Ancient Roman board game stumped experts for decades – until AI played A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for ...

More than a century ago, a scratched-up slab of limestone was excavated in the modern-day Netherlands and later deemed an ancient Roman game board. Since then, the mysterious game has eluded ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Board games didn’t always come in cardboard boxes. Some ancient versions were carved out of stone and employed polished rocks as gaming pieces ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...

Video games set during the Roman period capture a sense of power, greatness, and history that's just not present in a lot of games. Famous soldiers, gladiators, and rulers from that time inspire an ...

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. How do you go about learning the rules for a board ...

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A piece of etched rock discovered at the site of an ancient Roman settlement in the Netherlands is now thought to be an ancient game board. Researchers used AI to simulate gameplay and test whether ...

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 ...

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 ...