A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating ...

Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating ...

The researchers had two AIs play a large number of ancient European board games, including Scandinavia’s Haretavl and Italy’s ...

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical ...

The game the AI reconstructed — now dubbed Ludus Coriovalli (Game of Coriovallum) — is an asymmetric battle of attrition. It ...

Most folks know these bushy-tailed mammals from backyard sightings or nature shows, but the real story is deeper than casual encounters. Foxes carry surprises, from ancient survival tricks to ...

Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through ...

Books & the Arts / In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ...

This is the season to be in Japan, where the air is fresh and the weather is cold, unlike in Thailand. Some 1.5 hours from Haneda International Airport, Hakone is a popular weekend getaway for those ...

Once upon a time, there was a Viking king. He prayed to Thor, Odin and Freya and ruled over a land that did not yet have an ...

Inca polities on Peru’s south coast,” says Bongers. “They were particularly famous for their mercantile activity.” The Band ...