The Royal Game of Ur is the oldest known board game with surviving boards and preserved rules. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia, it spread widely across the Near East and Mediterranean.

Board games were also popular in the Roman Empire and boards and playing pieces have been found in several places in Slovakia ...

In this episode, we follow the Ottoman Empire from the frozen nightmare of Sarikamish to the widening chaos in Persia, Mesopotamia, and the Sinai. Along the way, we trace how collapsing border ...

Long before puzzles appeared in newspapers, apps or puzzle books, humans were already puzzling. The moment early humans began ...

Human fascination with chance has buoyed the growth of online casinos over the centuries. From the ancient die roll in ...

Explore whether a “gambling gene” exists and how genetics, technology, and culture intertwine to shape humanity’s growing fascination with modern gambling.

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors.

Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the ...

Steve Coogan stars in a loose retelling of an infamous football falling-out, while a new Netflix doc gets nostalgic about the heyday of Gary Barlow and co ...

Doha: Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Qatar Museums HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani affirmed investment in technology ...

At least once, you’ve wondered—who invented school? Today, let’s uncover the fascinating history and find out who started ...

Fun fact: US president George Washington would never have known the above. He died in 1799, decades before paleontologist Richard Owen first coined the term "dinosaur" in 1842. Related: If You Lived ...