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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...