A 4,000-year-old board discovered last year at an archaeological site in Oman's Qumayrah Valley might be a precursor to an ancient Middle Eastern game known as the Royal Game of Ur (or the Game of ...

More than 4,000 years later, researchers may have finally figured out how to play an ancient board game. It is considered to be one of the oldest in the world. The game board was discovered in ...

Family game nights may have come and gone, but those vintage board games you have stored in your attic may still be worth dusting off. Like well-worn cassette tapes and VHS tapes, old board games ...

A board game dubbed “Hounds and Jackals” or “58 Holes” is believed to be the oldest in the world, with ancient versions found in multiple regions. A relatively new discovery of game boards ...

Board game sales in the United States surged more than 30 percent from 2019 to 2020, fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic, said Juli Lennett, a toy industry adviser for Circana, a market research firm.