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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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, ...

Long before ancient civilizations in the Old World, Native American hunter-gatherers were already playing games of chance using carefully crafted bone dice more than 12,000 years ago. New research ...

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 ...

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 ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. The findings, published Thursday in the ...

It’s easy to think of dice as a relatively modern invention. We find them in board games, casino gambling, or even in math class. However, new evidence suggests that dice were invented much earlier ...