These 12-Sided Roman Bronze Objects Have Kept Their Secret Since 1739

First discovered in 1739, more than 100 Gallo-Roman dodecahedrons have since turned up, largely across the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. The hollow bronze pieces, built with 12 pentagonal faces and small spheres at each vertex, still have no agreed-upon purpose despite decades of research and dozens of competing theories. Archaeologists keep pulling the […]