Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A "Roman dodecahedron" unearthed during an archaeological dig. Amateur archaeologists in England have unearthed a stunning Roman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only around 33 dodechahedrons have been found in the UK, and 65 in Europe - Digging for Britain / BBC There were two big mysteries ...

For 285 years, Roman experts and archeologists have been perplexed over metal alloy dodecahedron-shaped objects that have no mention in Roman literature or art. In the summer of 2023, amateur ...

Mathematicians have spent more than 2,000 years dissecting the structure of the five Platonic solids—the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron—but there’s still a lot we don’t ...

There are no known descriptions or drawings of object in Roman literature, making its purpose unclear They are known as one of archaeology’s great enigmas – hollow 12-sided objects from the Roman era ...

Can you do what the world's archaeologists can't? Can you explain this -- thing? It’s been called a war weapon, a candlestick, a child’s toy, a weather gauge, an astronomical instrument, and a ...

A small community archaeology group stumbled across the "find of a lifetime" in the British countryside – a puzzling 1,700-year-old Roman artifact that has experts scratching their heads. The artifact ...

A replica of this dodecahedron appeared for sale on an internet auction site but the archaeologist who found it says the copy "ripped off" his group's hard work A replica of a Roman dodecahedron has ...

A group of amateur archaeologists in England were on their second to last day of excavation last June when they discovered a find of a lifetime — a mysterious ancient artifact called a dodecahedron at ...

A mysterious Roman object unearthed in an amateur dig has baffled experts as it goes on display in Britain for the first time. The 12-sided object was discovered in Norton Disney, near Lincoln, in ...