Mancala boards, traditional African game boards, can be repurposed as unique home decor items. These boards, which are usually made of wood and have a series of pits for playing, can add an ...

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 ...

Near grazing rhinos and blowing grasses, a patch of rocks jutted out of the Kenyan landscape. The rocky area seemed easy to overlook. But, as an archaeologist recently discovered, it was actually home ...

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 ...

The rows of shallow pits were carved into a rock ledge in what is now the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in central Kenya. Veronica Waweru via Yale News Yale archaeologist Veronica Waweru was conducting ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient "arcade" of game boards carved into rock has been discovered ...

Ayo is a traditional two-player Nigerian board game, also called mancala in other cultures. Played by the Yoruba in Nigeria, it’s considered one of the oldest board games in the world! It can be a ...

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