Empire of the Ants’s multiplayer modes have some clever ideas for how insects do battle, having you scurry around as a commander giving orders and casting buffs on your legions of bugs.

The collection, known as the Piprahwa Gems of the Historical Buddha, dates back to the Mauryan Empire during the Ashokan Era (circa 240–200 BCE) and was discovered in 1898 at Piprahwa, ...