Amateur archaeologists in eastern England found something super weird while digging through old Roman stuff: a bronze object with 12 flat faces, about the size of a fist. It turned out to be a Roman ...

A rare "mysterious" Gallo-Roman dodecahedron discovered by an amateur archaeological team has gone on display in Nottingham. The 12-sided hollow object will be on show at the University of Nottingham ...

While this might look like a rattle a baby might play with or chew on, this is in fact an ancient Roman artefact. The dodecahedron (a three-dimensional twelve-sided shape) was first discovered by ...

Roman hollow dodecahedrons ' discovered in various parts of Europe are relics made of bronze and stone dating back to the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, and at least 120 of them have been confirmed to exist ...

There are many sides to this story. Scientists remain baffled over a mysterious 12-sided bronze object dating back to the Roman Empire — theorizing it could be anything from a candle holder to a ...

When it was made: Second to fourth centuries A.D. Roman dodecahedrons have baffled archaeologists since 1739, when the first example of the 12-sided bronze object was discovered in the English ...

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Is it a musical instrument? A candle holder? A measurement tool? It’s a Roman dodecahedron—a mysterious artifact from ancient times—and it may have been any of the above, or none. Although these ...