There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have never quite figured it out.

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 ...

Roman dodecahedrons have puzzled researchers since their first discovery in 1739. These twelve-faced bronze objects have been found in various regions of the Roman Empire, with their purpose remaining ...

LONDON — As the group of amateur archaeologists sifted through tiles, animal teeth and pottery fragments buried within an ancient Roman pit in eastern England, one of them encountered something ...

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, ...

Much about archaeology can be described as trying to figure out the context in which objects and constructions should be interpreted. A good example of this are the metal dodecahedrons (twelve-sided ...

More than 100 of these artifacts have been found across Europe, but no one knows what they were used for. This dodecahedron was discovered fully... A group of amateur archaeologists in England were on ...

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 robotic dodecahedron can capture fragile deep-sea animals to collect tissues samples and construct three-dimensional scans of the creatures, potentially speeding up the cataloguing of the up to 66 ...

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 ...