Historians think the Indus people invented dice. Indus Valley traders did not use money, so they probably exchanged goods. They might swap two sacks of wheat for one basket of minerals.

Archaeologists have found cube dice with six sides and spots, just like the ones we use today. Indus Valley traders did not use money, so they probably exchanged goods. They might swap two sacks ...

Board and dice games have been a popular ... the sixth century A.D., although what may be "proto-chess" boards have been found in the Indus Valley region and dated to more than 3,000 years ago.

Excavations of the Indus Valley Civilisation that flourished from 3,000 BC to 2,500 BC have resulted in numerous findings of dice made of terracotta, bone, and more. While some of these dice found ...

Games of leisure played a key part of life 4,000 years ago in the Indus Valley of present-day Pakistan, according to an archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden who found that dice ...

We are reproducing the article published by John Marshall in The Illustrated London News on September 20, 1924, announcing the discovery of two large Indus Valley ... of chert; dice and chessmen ...