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fromFast Company
16 hours ago

A Roman board game has mystified researchers for years. AI discovered how to play

An ancient Roman-era limestone board from Coriovallum was identified as a blocking game (Ludus Coriovalli) using AI simulations matching wear patterns.
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fromNature
3 days ago

Daily briefing: The centre of our Galaxy might not be a black hole

The Milky Way's centre could be a fermionic dark-matter core, Roman Ludus Coriovalli rules decoded, and young chacma baboons exhibit sibling-directed jealousy.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 days ago

Rules of mysterious ancient Roman board game decoded by AI

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist who studies ancient board games, one exhibit stuck out to Crist: a stone game board dating to the late Roman Empire. It was about eight inches across and etched with angular lines that roughly formed the shape of an oblong octagon inside a rectangle.
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