The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

There isn’t much place for dodec­a­he­dra in mod­ern life, at least in those mod­ern lives with  table­top role-play­ing. In the ancient Roman Empire, how­ev­er, those shapes seem to have been prac­ti­cal­ly house­hold objects — not that we know what the house­hold would have done with them. Thus far, well over 100 sim­i­lar­ly designed cop­per-alloy sec­ond-to-fourth-cen­­tu­ry … Con­tin­ue read­ing The Ancient Roman Dodec­a­he­dron: The Mys­te­ri­ous Object That Has Baf­fled Archae­ol­o­gists for Cen­turies