Only around 33 dodechahedrons have been found in the UK, and 65 in Europe - Digging for Britain / BBC There were two big mysteries in the news this week. First there was the discovery of a Roman ...

A "Roman dodecahedron" unearthed during an archaeological dig. Amateur archaeologists in England have unearthed a stunning Roman dodecahedron — a mysterious class of objects that has baffled experts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Where it is from: Northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire When it was made: Second to fourth centuries A.D. Related: Penguin Vessel: 1,600-year-old Nazca depiction of a cold-water Humboldt penguin ...

The Norton Disney History and Archeology Group was digging in a field near the village of Norton Disney in Lincolnshire, England last summer when one of the volunteers stumbled upon a Roman ...

Amateur archaeologist Patrick Schuermans was wandering around a field in northern Belgium when his metal detector alerted him to the presence of something underfoot. When he located the item in ...

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 ...

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 ...