Is it a child’s toy? A weapon? Or just something that looked cool on an ancient Roman bookcase? These small hollow objects (one is pictured above), made of copper alloy with 12 flat pentagonal faces, ...

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 ...

Here's what you’ll learn when you read this story: Excavation in Salzburg, Austria, ahead of a new residential development unearthed a Roman villa from the second or third century C.E. and a rare ...

Many objects have been lost to the annals of time. So, too, have some objects’ meanings. Like, say, this one that’s been puzzling scientists for almost three centuries now. According to LiveScience, ...

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 ...

This year, three embalmed bodies buried with some cheese on them were discovered at an ancient burial site in Xinjiang in northwestern China. 杨益民/Yimin Yang et. al. via Journal of Archaeological ...

Before Caesar ruled the Roman Republic, this expansive stretch of territory was a democracy governed by a Senate and several high-ranking elected officials. While this early form of Roman government ...

A museum display featuring a mysterious artefact dating back to Roman times has been extended after high levels of interest. The dodecahedron, one of only 33 to be found in the UK, was discovered at ...