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Why Romans Made 12-Sided Objects No One Can Explain

Why Romans Made 12-Sided Objects No One Can Explain. Across the northern Roman Empire, archaeologists keep finding hollow bronze dodecahedrons with knobs and mismatched holes—and after two centuries of digging, no one can prove what they were for.New finds and museum re-examinations keep resurfacing these objects online, and the gap between how common they were and how silent the Romans stayed…

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