A custom AI program analyzed around 100 known Roman board games to help theorize the rules to the newly analyzed example. A complete catalog of Roman games may never be known, but an international ...

Walter Crist, who researches ancient games at Leiden University in the Netherlands, first saw the carved limestone in 2020, at the Het Romeins Museum. Located in the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, ...

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.

It gamed the system. Here’s yet more proof that AI is playing 3D chess while we’re playing checkers. A gameplaying AI system has cracked a cryptic, Roman-era board game that has baffled scientists for ...

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 ...

Besides swapping out rocks for cardboard, board games haven’t really changed much.

“This is the first time that AI-driven simulated play has been used in concert with archaeological methods to identify a ...

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. NPR’s Henry Larson reports. This article was ...

Researchers couldn't figure out this ancient Roman game. So they let AI play it thousands of times until it cracked the code.