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 ...

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 ...

A common route for such a build relies on appropriately shaped 3D printed frame parts, with some kind of clear plastic for the 12 faces, and LED strips stuck to the inside of each of the 30 edges.

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 ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Roman dodecahedra are something of an enigma: there is no known mention of ...

More than 100 dodecahedrons have now been found in northwestern Europe, but archaeologists still don't know what they were used for. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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.