New research identifies more than 600 objects discovered in the United States as two-sided dice crafted by Native Americans.

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper ...

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 ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before ...

Historians assumed that humans first started gambling in the Old World. Scholars traced the earliest dice to Bronze Age ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by ...

A tessera or a Roman six-sided die from the Vidy Roman Museum Rama/Wikimedia Commons When we sit down to play Yahtzee, backgammon, or any of the multitudinous games that rely on dice, we expect that ...