Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left little trace. Unlike tools or bones, games rarely preserve and the fleeting pleasures they produce are even harder to ...

The death of David Simon on March 22 occurred at a moment of incredible financial and operational strength for his company, Simon Property Group. The Indianapolis-based real estate investment trust ...

Late Pleistocene, Early Holocene, Middle Holocene, and Late Holocene diagnostic and probable prehistoric Native American dice (images courtesy Robert J. Madden) New research published in the journal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indigenous people in the western United States invented dice more than 12,000 years ago, offering archaeologists the world's oldest evidence of gambling and possibly the oldest use of probability, a ...

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 ...

The death of David Simon, the Indianapolis native who served three decades as the leader of Simon Property Group, will mean a shift at the top of the largest mall operator business in the world. David ...

David Simon, the man charged with overseeing the most malls in the world, died March 22 after a two-year battle with cancer. His oldest son, Eli, will take over as CEO immediately. David Simon became ...

David Simon, who led the largest mall company in the US, died Sunday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his family’s real estate company said Monday. He was 64 He was the chief executive of Simon ...

David Simon, the chairman and chief executive officer of US shopping mall heavyweight Simon Property Group, died of cancer. He was 64. Simon joined family-owned Melvin Simon & Associates as chief ...

David Simon, whose ruthless negotiating tactics, obsession with details and sheer force of will turned his family’s real-estate business into the largest mall owner in the country, died Sunday after a ...