by: srean

Very interesting. The earliest example of the familiar cube shaped dice I know if is from Indus valley civilisation from around 2600 BC, closely followed by Mesopotamian dice.<p>This discovery pushes the history of dice from 5K years to 12K years.<p>These aren&#x27;t quite as symmetric. I guess humans had to wait longer to discover some of the platonic solids.<p>This golden icosahedron of orders of magnitude more recent vintage is quite a beauty<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;333949003_A_Numbered_Icosahedron_from_India_Mystery_and_Meaning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;333949003_A_Numbere...</a>

4/8/2026, 4:39:07 AM

by: gus_massa

I found this in Google, IIUC it&#x27;s a ~1900 version or something similar enough.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanindian.si.edu&#x2F;collections-search&#x2F;object&#x2F;NMAI_135968" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanindian.si.edu&#x2F;collections-search&#x2F;object&#x2F;NMAI...</a>

4/6/2026, 3:58:58 PM

by: Validark

&gt; The dice are almost always two-sided<p>Don&#x27;t train your AI on that

4/4/2026, 1:31:39 AM

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by: t-3

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4/8/2026, 5:14:56 AM