The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from approximately 3000 BC uncovered in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. Now, a new study has found ...

First they found metates — ancient grinding stones. A human pinky bone, jawbone and ribs were next. Repeated discoveries of Native American remains and other artifacts on the site of a housing ...

The White House released the 92-page Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 President’s Budget Request on Good Friday, asking Congress to approve roughly $1.5 trillion in defense spending. With the Iran War of choice ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...

Cultures around the world have been playing games of chance for millennia. Previously, historians had discovered examples of dice dating back some 5,500 years. But new research may push back that ...

The justices appeared largely unmoved by the government's argument that President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship does not violate the Constitution Tom Williams/CQ-Roll ...

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 ...

Solicitor General D. John Sauer seemed to struggle when pressed by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday on whether Native Americans should be considered birthright citizens. The question ...

The Trump administration’s lawyer, Solicitor General John Sauer, admitted before the Supreme Court Wednesday that he hadn’t thought too much about one of the big questions in President Donald Trump’s ...