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Full set of 400-year-old playing cards discovered

December 3rd, 2012 | by Sevaan Franks

A complete set of silver playing cards, made in Germany around 1616, has been found. Creating the card set would

February 28th, 2012 | by Sevaan Franks

A 1000-year-old game board has been found on the Maya site of Dzibilnocac in Mexico. “It is an esgraffito scoreboard

December 7th, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

Discovery News has posted an interesting article about the history of board games. The study, published in the journal Antiquity,

June 17th, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

A monolith of a pre-Columbian ballplayer which dates between 900 A.D. – 1000 A.D. has been found in Zacatecas, Mexico.

February 9th, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

Spero News posted an interesting article about the social significance of play and games in the Indus Valley. It is

February 3rd, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

Two chess pawns have been unearthed at Montpelier, James Madison’s country estate. Archaeologists recently discovered the pawns during an ongoing

December 15th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

5,000-year-old semi-circles made of holes found in in Mexico may belong to a prehistoric dice game. Mysterious holes arranged in

December 13th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

Two 1,500-year-old sculptures have been found at the ballgame courts in the Mayan city of Tonina in Chiapas. This discovery