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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tokens That Roman Soldiers Used to Play Strategy Games

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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tokens That Roman Soldiers Used to Play Strategy Games

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The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman fortress

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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