Jackpot! Archaeologists just found the world's oldest dice

Filed by Elara Myst

They’re not the six-sided dice we’re familiar with now, but these ancient tools were crucial for rudimentary games of chance 12,000 years ago.A new piece of research shows that the world’s oldest-known dice came from North America 12,000 years ago.The rudimentary games of chance were used for entertainment, gambling, and in commerce.The games, predominately played by women, followed complex rules.Experts long believed that the world’s oldest game of chance was invented in Egypt about...