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A Roman board game has mystified researchers for years. AI discovered how to play
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The Secret of a Strategy Game in Ancient Rome Was Described by Ai, Years After Archaeologists Failed
The geometric lines sculptured on a white and round stone dating from the time of ancient Rome, which have been undisputed for years on Dutch archaeologists, have proved to be the follow-up to a missing strategy game. Researchers have been able to reconstruct it...
A stone object found in the ancient Roman city of Coriovallum, under the current Heerlen in the Netherlands, could be an unknown gameboard until now.A study published in Antiquity combined wear analysis with artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify the most likely rules of the game.The research was led by Walter Crist, of the Centre for Digital Humanities of the University of Leiden, along with specialists from several European and…
For a long time, researchers could not understand why the mysterious stone was used.
In the museums, some objects wait for decades before revealing their true function. A limestone slab exhumed in the remains of a Roman city seemed to be an anonymous fragment of architecture. The careful observation of its surfaces, combined with digital tools capable of testing thousands of hypotheses, allowed however to transform this silent stone into a direct witness of a forgotten leisure. An engraved stone long left unexplained The object,…
A Roman board game or a tool in construction? 3D scans and AI solved the puzzle: The limestone is part of a game and thus possibly the oldest board game in the Netherlands.
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