Six-sided dice from the ancient Roman Empire left little to fate—even if those playing with the dice believed fate decided the outcomes of their games. A recent study from Jelmer Eerkens of the ...

To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

Dice, in their standard six-sided form, seem like the simplest kind of device—almost a classic embodiment of chance. But a new study of more than 100 examples from the last 2,000 years or so ...

There are other contenders for the earliest dice; two-sided throwing sticks were used in Ancient Egypt at roughly the same time, "which long preceded the manufacture of six-sided dice", says ...

Ancient dice could be carved from stone, crystal, bone, antler or ivory, and while the cubical dice familiar today were common, they weren't the only shape that was used — several polyhedral ...

It’s not a party until someone brings out the animal matter. Israeli archaeologists have discovered the unusual purpose behind 600 Hellenistic-era dice fashioned from the talus bones of ancient ...

On a cliff overlooking a narrow strait in western Norway, archaeologists have discovered rare game pieces, including odd-looking, elongated dice inside a burial mound dating to the Roman Iron Age ...

To learn more about the Ancient Myth TRPG gaming dice project review the promotional video below. “It has always been my destiny to bond together with TRPG (Tabletop Role Playing Games).

Most people are familiar with conventional cubical six-sided dice, but there are also polyhedral versions like the 20-sided dice used in ancient Rome and to play Dungeons and Dragons.Researchers ...

To learn more about the Ancient Myth TRPG gaming dice project review the promotional video below. “It has always been my destiny to bond together with TRPG (Tabletop Role Playing Games).