Introduction: The birth of a new gaming era -- Tomb raiders and the lost games of the ancients: what board games reveal about our ancestors -- Chess: the "mad queen's game": how the chessboard came to ...

By simulating thousands of matches and analyzing wear patterns, researchers reconstructed the rules of a long-lost blocking game. Somewhere around the turn of the 20th century, archaeologists in ...

This list highlights some titles that not only are fun to play, but also offer insights and a deeper look at various historical events. Even though these are all fun games, some of the subject matters ...

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