They’re not the six-sided dice we’re familiar with now, but these ancient tools were crucial for rudimentary games of chance 12,000 years ago.

Some of the discoveries among the camp remains indicate there was a surprisingly peaceful co-existence between Romans and the ...

This is the first evidence we have of structured human engagement with the concepts of chance and randomness.” ...

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In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in ...

Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC. The settlement — called Semiyarka ...

A recent archaeological discovery suggests a major cultural milestone: the onset of naturalistic depictions of people with animals around 12,000 years ago, almost three thousand years earlier than ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --Rising sea levels could flood more than 50 archaeological sites on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, by 2080 -- including the iconic Ahu Tongariki, according to a new study from the ...

Scientists decoded DNA from millennia-old lentils preserved in volcanic rock silos on Gran Canaria. The findings show that today’s Canary Island lentils largely descend from varieties brought from ...