A new study shows that dice and games of chance date back thousands of years earlier than experts previously thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new piece of research shows that the world’s oldest-known dice came from North America 12,000 years ago. The rudimentary games of chance were used ...

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The oldest known dice in the world are roughly 12,000 years old and from western North America, a new study suggests. Before the discovery, the oldest dice recorded were from Mesopotamia, made around ...

FORT COLLINS, COLO. — Scientists uncovered new evidence that Native cultures in the Southwest, including in New Mexico, had dice games 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists published the findings Thursday ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone “binary lots” acted like ...

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...

The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from approximately 3000 BC uncovered in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. Now, a new study has found ...

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