The 36th annual Czech Open Chess and Games Festival is well underway and will run until August 3. Around four thousand players from almost all over the world are attending.

To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

Ancient Egyptian genome reveals North African roots and Fertile Crescent ancestry by The Francis Crick Institute edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Charlotte Checkers fans packed Bojangles Coliseum, but Game 1 ended in heartbreak as the Canucks won in OT after a controversial call disallowed a goal.

Explore the revival of Egyptian blue pigment and its uses in science, from archaeology to fingerprinting and counterfeit prevention.

More Sudanese refugees are giving up on Egypt and taking their chances in Libya.

A burger chain has chosen Worcester as the site for its first restaurant in New England. Checkers, a Tampa-based chain with more than 700 locations throughout the United States, will open a new ...

Local Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed never-before-seen, richly decorated tombs of Egyptian officials at the Draʻ Abu el-Naga site. See the photos.

Trump explains why Egypt was not part of travel ban after citing Boulder attack 'Egypt has been a country that we deal with very closely. They have things under control,' Trump said of the nation ...

Checkers, a Tampa-based burger chain that has over 700 locations across the country, will be opening its first location in Worcester, going into 99 Gold Star Blvd. in Worcester, at the location of ...

Twice as nice. As the Florida Panthers get ready for the Stanley Cup Final on Monday, their AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, will now be awaiting their opponent for the Calder Cup Finals ...