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Archaeologists Find 5th Century Game Pieces Made of Bones, Hinted at Roman Military StrategyGame Pieces Made of Bones, Hinted at Roman Military Strategy Among the exciting archaeological discoveries, some intriguing ...
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Archaeologists Discovered the Pieces of a Fifth-Century Board Game. They Tell a Big Story.The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with ...
The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...
have unearthed two bone tokens dating to the fifth century C.E. that they suspect belong to a strategic board game enjoyed by Roman soldiers. “These bone objects are lentil-shaped and disk ...
Below, a fifth-century wooden carving shows a relief ... Estimates suggest that just 50 years before, the number of Roman soldiers in Gaul exceeded 50,000, but 50 years of civil skirmishes and ...
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