The aim of the "deceptively simple but thrilling strategy game" was to hunt and trap the opponent's pieces in as few moves as possible, scientists said.

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

History is filled with questions that refuse to be answered. Some stories end without closure, and honestly, that's part of ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire. It involves scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. CBS News' Chris Livesay ...

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire involving scrolls from a library that was buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 ...

The great mystery of the Minoan Phaistos Disc has been "solved by 99 percent" says linguist and archaeologist Gareth Owens.

Long before the Black Death killed millions across Europe in the Middle Ages, an earlier, more elusive version of the plague spread across much of Eurasia. For years, scientists were unsure how the ...

STONEHENGE? THAT’S A GREAT QUESTION. WE’RE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT TODAY. AFTER ABOUT 90 YEARS OF RESEARCH, MY FAMILY GOT INVOLVED WITH US BACK IN 1955. SO IT’S BEEN A BEEN A LONG ROAD ON THIS ...

The mystery of how the Ancient Egyptian pyramids has been reignited by the death of a Swiss author, who famously argued that early human civilisations received help from extra-terrestrial visitors.

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A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...