Europe offers an incredible array of city break destinations, all just a short flight away, where you can immerse yourself in a completely different culture, heritage and landscape. Rome was once the ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a ...

Scientists used AI to unlock the rules of a long-lost Roman board game, revealing it was played centuries earlier than ...

Amid Rome’s crowds of tourists and souvenir stalls, a Renaissance palace offers an escape from the chaos. Just steps from the city’s busiest sights, Palazzo Altemps is a hidden gem where world-class ...

Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The ...

The lines worn into an engraved limestone object from the Netherlands are consistent with the idea that it was a Roman game ...

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

Researchers used AI-driven virtual players to test more than 100 rule sets, matching gameplay to wear patterns on a Roman limestone board.