Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Long before Settlers of Catan, Scrabble and ...

Researchers from Yale University have made a spectacular archaeological discovery in Kenya that sheds light on the recreational activities of past societies in this region of Africa. Dr. Veronica ...

This Mancala Game, handcrafted By Giobagnara, is part of the Poltrona Frau Culture & Craft collection in collaboration with Ozwald Boateng: a collaboration launched in 2023, the collection is defined ...

An ancient "arcade" of game boards carved into rock has been discovered by an archaeologist and paleoanthropologist from Yale University in Kenya. The researcher, Veronica Waweru, noticed rows of ...

African publisher Carry1st has turned Mancala, one of the world's oldest board games, into a mobile game. The game Mancala Adventures currently has over 500,000 downloads on Android. Mancala, an ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. Third ...

AMMAN — People in the past spent more time on leisure activities than the present day generation, said a Jordanian archaeologist at the lecture “Game Boards from Petra” held at American Centre of ...

More women in Tanzania are taking up a traditional game called Mancala, also known as Bao in Swahili. The game, popular among men, has been played for centuries in Africa.

The game broadly comes under 'mancala', a generic name for a family of two-player, turn-based, strategy board games. CHENNAI: Before the advent of mobile phones, it was the traditional ...