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ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 months ago

sometimes we get lost in the sauce

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sometimes we get lost in the sauce

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ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 5 months ago
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    Then there’s the Roman dodecahedron, which truly seems to be a mystery with no modern equivalent, but lots of theories.

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      They look gambling related to me, but I don’t know why that would be in a burial.

      dodecahedron,

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron

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        I hope my family buries me with my favorite dice set

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          https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/bronze-age-girl-buried-with-more-than-150-animal-ankle-bones-potentially-to-help-her-to-the-next-world

          As I recall, the bones were identified as gaming pieces. there’s a similar game played in the area, and the winner gets to keep the losers playing pieces.

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            She was either so loved that a bunch of kids gave her their dice pieces as a symbolic gesture, or she fuckin rekt so many kids at dice one of them up and murdered her. Who can say.

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