Wading through a pile of marbles to find just the right one is a bit like gold mining. You never know what you might turn up.

Playing "for keeps" means that any competitor's marbles you knock out are added to your personal collection. Oddly enough, the origin of the phrase, "losing your marbles" can't definitively be traced ...

Greece's prime minister cut a U.K. visit short after an apparent snub by his U.K. counterpart over the Elgin Marbles — sculptures taken from the Parthenon, now housed at the British Museum. Greece's ...

Magnificent glass treasures are being tucked into beaches, forests and mountaintops this week as the World’s Biggest Marble Hunt celebrates its 10th anniversary.

Part of our NPR Ed series on why people play and how play relates to learning. For me, there was no other childhood experience that taught me more about math or about life than those shiny, wonderful, ...